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I‘m looking for some help Litsy friends. I‘m not really a sports person, but I‘ve worked over the years to add more sports books to my mostly 6th-8th grade class library. Yesterday I had a specific request for books about girls in sports and realized I‘ve got very few books to recommend. So, if you‘ve got great #MiddleGrade suggestions other than the few books shown here, please send them my way!

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Didn‘t have this one listed here but this is a sweet book written by a young lady in Pittsburgh! She‘s an honor roll student and what a great job!!!!

#MarchMadness Day 24: This is a #SportsStory like no other featuring women from various parts of the world who are not afraid of adversity, not afraid to win, and definitely not afraid of their own strength and fortitude. Speaking of diversity and inclusion, the book not only shared female weightlifters and body builders, but also athletes who are differently abled. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-jtl

This book was really interesting. I learned a lot about female athletes that I knew nothing about. So much history. This book made me feel really bad about myself, when there are 90 year old woman still teaching exercise classes and I don‘t go to any exercise classes!!

Also, I hate the word winningest. It just sounds funny. I had to look up if it was a real word.

#readingwomenchallenge - About a women athlete

#NoFemmeber Day 27: #Amazon like in their formidable strength, and fierce nature, this is the book that immediately came to mind for today‘s prompt. Reading this for our upcoming #WomenReadWomen2019 theme.

Another highly recommended book by Rachel Ignotofsky! I hope she does more of these! I just adore them!

The illustration is of Valentina Vezzali, an Italian fencer who also is now on the Italian Parliament! I chose her because I'm hoping to start fencing lessons soon!

The quarterlane x Reading Women box is available for just a few more days. We chose books that are excellent reads, but that haven't gotten a ton of press this year. We loved all of these books and think you will too. And the holidays will be here before you know it! Visit your link to snag your box before they're gone. ⠀
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Just picked up from the library! #lovereading #womenathletes

And last but not least bad ass woman of sports is the Olympian, Simone Biles.

I loved this book. Lots of sports covered and I didn't know most of them! Always happy to stumble upon new people. The book is written so it's very accessible as well as brightly illustrated.

Fearless woman number forty-nine is Katie Ledecky

Fearless woman number forty-eight is Mariana Pajon

Fearless woman number forty-seven is Ashley Fiolek

Fearless woman number forty-six is Ronda Rousey

Fearless woman number forty-five is Lindsey Vonn

Fearless woman number forty-four is Kelly Clark

Fearless woman number forty-three is Mithali Raj

Fearless woman number forty-two is Nicola Adams. I've watched enough British TV to know who this is

Fearless woman number forty-one is Danica Patrick

Fearless woman number forty is Serena Williams

Fearless woman number thirty-nine is Melissa Stockwell. PS I fell asleep on my phone before hitting "Post" last night so this counts for yesterday lol

Fearless woman number thirty-eight is Ellen MacArthur!

Fearless woman number thirty-seven is Valentina Vezzali. Not only does she have the most Italian name EVER but she was also a member of the Italian parliament!

Mia Hamm! ❤️ She was one of the few athletes I idolized growing up. I was only truly ever interested in soccer and I had a poster of her on my door.

Fearless woman number thirty-six is Deng Yaping!

Fearless woman number thirty-five is Manon Rheaume! I was obsessed with this woman growing up. She pushed me into being a goalie and (while I don't remember it) my dad told me I got to meet her

Fearless woman number thirty-four is Lisa Leslie

Fearless woman number thirty-three is Mia Hamm

Fearless woman number thirty-two is Layne Beachley

Fearless woman number thirty-one is Kristi Yamaguchi. I know this name!

Fearless woman number thirty is Kim Soo-Nyung

Fearless woman number twenty-nine is Chantal Petitclerc

Fearless woman number twenty-eight is Anjali Bhagwat

Fearless woman number twenty-seven is Violet Palmer

Fearless woman number twenty-six is Bonnie Blair

Fearless woman number twenty-five is Julie Krone

Fearless woman number twenty-four is Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Reading a bit until I fall asleep.

I really love the variety of athletes covered in this. ❤️

Pictured: Marion Ladewig - considered one of the best bowlers of all time.

Fearless woman number twenty-three is Nadia Comaneci

Excited to dive into this quick read!

Pictured: Tony Broadwick - first woman to free fall skydive and first woman to parachute from an airplane!

Fearless woman number twenty-two is Bev Francis

Today's book mail 😍

Fearless woman number twenty-one is Susan Butcher.

Fearless woman number twenty is Flo Hyman.

Fearless woman number nineteen is Anita Defrantz

This would make a great gift for middle-grade readers and up who are sports fans looking for stories beyond ESPN. #feminism #women #sports #biography

Fearless woman number eighteen is Patti McGee!

Fearless woman number seventeen is Billie Jean King!

Fearless woman number sixteen is Jody Conradt!

Fearless woman number fifteen is Wilma Rudolph! Track and field athlete and a civil rights pioneer!

Fearless woman number fourteen is Junko Tabei! She was the first woman to complete the Seven Summits.