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"A star rookie pitcher is making a statement in his first major league season--but will the secret he's been keeping detail everything he's been working toward? Jess Singer, pitching prodigy and son of the infamous Jewish Joe Singer--who starred on the mound for the same MLB team twenty-five years earlier--is blessed with a plus-plus curveball, possesses immense athletic abilities, and is on the fast-track to stardom. But he's harboring perhaps the...
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"In this memoir for young readers, Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya reflects on her groundbreaking career and her fight for identity in professional sports. Caster Semenya is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and a three-time world champion in track from South Africa. Since her first spectacular performance at the 2009 World Championship in Berlin, she has been at the center of a growing debate about female eligibility rules in professional athletics...
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Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2024]
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First edition.
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289 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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"Drop In is the first book to recognize the women, LGBTQIA+, and nonbinary skateboarders who shattered the status quo and blazed a path to today's more equitable skate culture. This groundbreaking account redefines what skateboarding is and who it's for through the recounting of four extraordinary individuals' lives: Alana Smith, the first openly nonbinary athlete in Olympic history; Vanessa Torres, a record-breaking runaway living on the razor's...
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BookLife
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2020.
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1 volume : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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Farrar Strauss Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
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First edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
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English
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"An inspiring picture book biography about Glenn Burke, the first Major League Baseball player to come out as gay, and the story of how he created the high five, the world's most recognizable handshake. Playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Glenn Burke could do it all--hit, throw, run, field. He was the heart of the clubhouse who energized his teammates with his enthusiasm and love for the game. It was that energy that led Glenn to invent the high...
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