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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon is just seventeen years old when he and his South Sudanese teammates come to the United States to compete in a basketball tournament. The opportunity to be scouted by college coaches is a dream come true. Though he is an amazing athlete, his technical game needs work. And then Sooley receives devastating news from home: as a result of the civil war raging across South Sudan, his father is dead, his sister is missing, and...
Author
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
This book recounts ten high points in the history of women's athletic competitions, including Babe Zaharias's performance at the 1930 Olympics, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, and the final game in the 1999 Women's World Cup.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A seven-time Olympic medalist describes her battles with depression, eating disorders, and substance abuse in spite of her successful career, recounting how she hid her struggles from her loved ones before seeking help and finding renewal in the birth ofher son
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
American gymnast Johnson is a four-time Olympic gold and silver medalist; a national--and world--champion athlete and a winner on the popular "Dancing with the Stars." This is the amazing true journey of how this young Olympian has found balance in her life.
Author
Publisher
Random House/Broadway
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Language
English
Description
A revealing portrait of a once-in-a-generation athlete and global icon One of sport's biggest superstars, Michael Jordan is more than an internationally renowned athlete. As illuminated through David Halberstam's trademark balance of impeccable research and fascinating storytelling, Jordan symbolizes the apex of the National Basketball Association's coming of age. Long before multimillion-dollar signings and lucrative endorsements, NBA players worked...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"On a May afternoon in 1943, an American military plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary sagas of the Second World War. The lieutenant's name was Louis Zamperini....
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography highlighting a pivotal event in the childhood of African American baseball player Marcenia "Toni Stone" Lyle Alberga, the woman who broke baseball's gender barrier by becoming the first female roster member of a professional Negro League team"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"These are the inspirational real-life stories of female superstar athletes Serena and Venus Williams, Simone Biles, Carli Lloyd, and more -- role models all. For sports fans, aspiring athletes and readers of sports biographies"--
20) Tiger Woods
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In 2009, Tiger Woods was the most famous athlete on the planet, a transcendent star of almost unfathomable fame and fortune living what appeared to be the perfect life. Married to a Swedish beauty and the father of two young children, he was the winner of fourteen major golf championships and earning more than $100 million annually. But it was all a carefully crafted illusion. As it turned out, Woods had been living a double life for years -- one...
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