We Got Game!
35 Female Athletes Who Changed the World
$44.95
- Hardcover
128 pages
- Release Date
12 October 2021
Summary
Do you play sports? Maybe you dream about scoring a goal on the soccer field or hitting a home run in baseball. Perhaps you’re thinking about trying a new sport, but you’re still not sure.
In We Got Game you’ll meet thirty-five female athletes who played hard, broke records, and inspired girls around the world. Some of these athletes have retired. Others are still competing. But they have one thing in common: they all got game! You’ll read about the first woman horse jockey t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780762497805 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0762497807 |
| Author: | Aileen Weintraub, Sarah Green |
| Publisher: | Running Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Running Press Kids |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 12 October 2021 |
| Weight: | 620g |
| Dimensions: | 250mm x 194mm x 16mm |
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Critics Review
The biographies, inspirational messages, and mottos make this a good choice for young feminists and sports enthusiasts.– Booklist
“This collective biography introduces a diverse group of…women athletes from a notably wide range of sports and other physical disciplines…Readers will be inspired to learn more.”–The Horn Book
“A thoughtful and inspiring purchase for upper elementary and middle grade readers that will foster curiosity, questions, and further memoir reading.”–School Library Journal, starred review
The biographies, inspirational messages, and mottos make this a good choice for young feminists and sports enthusiasts.–Booklist
About The Author
Aileen Weintraub
Aileen Weintraub is an award-winning author and editor. She has twenty years’ experience in the publishing industry and has written more than fifty books for children and young adults with companies including Scholastic, Simon and Schuster, and Sterling. Her book, Never Too Young: 50 Unstoppable Kids Who Made a Difference, won a 2018 Parents’ Choice Award. She has also written numerous essays and articles for Huff Post Personal, Glamour, Scary Mommy, the Manifest-Station, Kveller, and other publications.
Sarah Green is an illustrator and designer from San Francisco. She graduated from RISD in 2014 and now splits her time between her hometown of San Francisco and Vancouver, Canada, with her fluffy, tiny cat by her side. She loves history, research, and nature, and probably has more plants than a person should.
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