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Series
Publisher
SportsZone, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Learn more about the top stars of track and field and what it takes to be the best of the best. The title features historical sidebars, how-to fact boxes, tips and drills, and a glossary."--Publisher's website.
3) Jesse Owens
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Most of the time sports are seen as the height of competition, but often they also bring people together in times of cultural, social, and political upheaval. Jesse Owens explores the way the Olympic track athlete served to bring Americans (and citizens around the world) together against a common enemy. Includes ties to 21st Century themes, as well as infographics, timelines, glossary, and index.
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 31
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Talent and skill have made you a high school track star, but when it comes to breaking the rules of the game, will you do anything to win?
6) Running for my life: one lost boy's journey from the killing fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games
Author
Publisher
Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This is a story about outrunning the devil and achieving the impossible faith, diligence, and the desire to give back. Lomong chronicles his inspiring ascent from a barefoot lost boy of the Sudanese Civil War to a Nike sponsored athlete on the US Olympic Team. He shares his commitment to keep moving forward and find God in each step.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Untold until now, here is the story of Black sprinter and long-jumper Willye B. White, who went from picking cotton as a child in Mississippi to competing and winning in the 1956 and 1964 Olympics...[W]hen her cousin noticed she was the fastest runner around, Willye jumped at the chance to put on her traveling shoes and run her way to better opportunities. And run Willye did, first for the Tennessee State Tigerbelles and then for the US Olympic team....
8) Boundless
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Everything seemed set against Chaunte Lowe. Growing up with a single mother in Paso Robles, California, where she experienced food insecurity, homelessness, and domestic abuse, Chaunte couldn't imagine a future that offered a different sort of life. But then, one day, she turned on the TV and there was Flo Jo, competing in the Olympics and shattering records in track and field. Almost immediately, Chaunte knew what she wanted to do. She started running....
9) Long-armed Ludy and the first women's Olympics: based on the true story of Lucile Ellerbe Godbold
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Shares the story of how Lucile Godbold qualified for the first Women's Olympics but had no money to go, so her college classmates helped raise money to send her to Paris where she won the gold medal.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Imagine denying your core and soul. Then add to it the most impossible expectations that people have for you because you are the personification of The American Male Athlete." Bruce Jenner, the celebrated Olympic icon and later the patriarch of one of the most famous families in the world, seemed to be living a dream life of success, fame, and prosperity. But the all-American image and million-dollar smile belied a lifelong struggle with gender dysphoria,...
Author
Series
Hana-kimi volume 21
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
It looks like Mizuki's cover might be blown when she finds out sh'e going to have to compete...in a cross-dressing match. She's going to have to be a boy pretending to be a girl, but that might give away that she's already a girl pretending to be a boy. Plus, a schoolmate has a crush on Mizuki...only he's super confused because he thinks she's a boy!
Author
Series
Hana-kimi volume 1
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Mizuki Ashiya is no slouch when it comes to a challenge. She's a star of track and field at her high school, after all. So when she falls for fellow athlete Izumi Sano, she figures out an ingenious plan to get close to him. Now she's moved to Japan, enrolled in the all-male high school Sano goes to, and become his roommate! How? She's disguised herself as a boy! Whatever happens next, things are about to get seriously complicated!"--Publisher's web...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1970 in Red Grove, Alabama, and at Lu Olivera's school the white kids and black kids sit on different sides of the classroom. Six-grader Lu just wants to get along with everyone, but growing racial tensions will not let Lu stay neutral about the racial divide in school. Her old friends have been changing lately--acting boy crazy and making snide remarks about Lu's newfound talent for running track. Lu's secret hope for a new friend is fellow...
15) The moth girl
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Anna is a regular teenaged girl ... But one day at track practice, Anna falls unconscious ... but instead of falling down, she falls up, defying gravity in the disturbing first symptom of a mysterious disease. Anna's world is turned upside down ... Her friends don't seem to understand, running track is out of the question, and the other kids at the disease clinic she attends once a week are a cruel reminder that things will never be the same"--
Author
Publisher
Edge of Sports, an imprint of Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In 1968, Wyomia Tyus became the first person ever to win gold medals in the 100-meter sprint in two consecutive Olympic Games, a feat that would not be repeated for twenty years or exceeded for almost fifty. Tigerbelle chronicles Tyus's journey from her childhood as the daughter of a tenant dairy farmer through her Olympic triumphs to her post-competition struggles to make a way for herself and other female athletes. The Hidden Figures of sport,...
Author
Series
Hana-kimi volume 1
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Mizuki Ashiya is a star of track and field at her high school, but when she falls for a fellow athlete who attends an all-male high school, she figures out an ingenious plan to get close to him. She disguises herself as a boy, transfers to his school, and becomes his roommate. In this volume Mizuki's friend Nakao convinces Mizuki to tell Sano that she loves him. But as roommates and friends, a rejection could make Mizuki's situation unbearable. And...
19) Sunny
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 3
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Sunny, the Defenders' best runner, only runs for his father, who blames Sunny for his mother's death, but with his coach's help Sunny finds a way to combine track and field with his true passion, dancing.
Author
Series
Hana-kimi volume 1
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Mizuki's big lie gets even messier when her male alter ego starts dating Julia, the transfer student from America. Plus, a certain devious teacher targets Mizuki's friend Nakatsu and levies charges that could ultimately get him kicked out of school! As she struggles to keep her cover and her cool under pressure, things heat up more than ever for Mizuki and her classmates.
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