Girls & Women, Basketball - Biography, Basketball - Players & Teams
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Overview
This series takes an inside look at the lives of famous athletes. In Jam Session, the reader will discover the athletes' hard work, determination, and disappointments. Included are great quotes from coaches, players, friends, and the athletes themselves. Read what the athletes have to say about their personal life, career, and how they achieved greatness. Action-packed photographs take you inside the lives of these superstars. This series was designed with excitement in mind, utilizing high-impact graphics to highlight the excitement of each sport and the athlete.Describes the life and career of the player who led the 1996 women's Olympic basketball team to win the gold medal for the United States in Atlanta.
Editorials
School Library Journal
Gr 2-4-Two mediocre biographies. Lisa Leslie is an attempt to give young readers some insight into this young athlete/model. The outcome is 28 pages of some suspect information. For example, Dougherty includes a sentence that states that Leslie was six-feet tall when she was in the second grade. Other sources report that she was six-feet tall in the seventh grade. Both biographies are loaded with color photographs of the athletes in action. Tara Lipinski also includes photographs of the young ice-skater enjoying her leisure time. Neither book includes a bibliography or suggestions for further reading. Other titles that are just as good include Mark Stewart's Lisa Leslie (Children's, 1997), Matt Christopher's On the Court with Lisa Leslie (Little, Brown, 1998), Jill Wheeler's Tara Lipinski (ABDO, 1998), and Veda Boyd Jones's Tara Lipinski (Chelsea, 1997).-Barb Lawler, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, PA Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.Book Details
Published
January 1, 1999
Publisher
Abdo Pub Co
Pages
32
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781577653455