Girl running : Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon
(2017)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
J/BIOGRAPHY/796.425/GIBB,R/PIM
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Nancy Paulsen Books, [2017]
DESCRIPTION
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 28 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781101996683, 1101996684
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Because Bobbi Gibb is a girl, she's not allowed to run on her school's track team. But after school, no one can stop her--and she's free to run endless miles to her heart's content. She is told no yet again when she tries to enter the Boston Marathon in 1966, because the officials claim that it's a man's race and that women are just not capable of running such a long distance. So what does Bobbi do? She bravely sets out to prove the naysayers wrong and show the world just what a girl can do
Age 5-8
K to Grade 3
AD580L
Decoding demand: 72 (high) Semantic demand: 88 (very high) Syntactic demand: 70 (high) Structure demand: 84 (very high)