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Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Publication Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
"On your mark! Get ready to sprint, jump, and throw alongside the fiercest competitors in track and field history. Discover amazing stats, thrilling comebacks, and athletes that shattered barriers"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Publication Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A survey of the highlights and legendary athletes--such as Jamaican Usain Bolt--of the Olympic sport of track and field, which has been part of the modern Summer Games since 1896" -Provided by Publisher.
4) Jesse Owens
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Publication Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
Meet Jesse Owens, an African American runner who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin! What made his achievement even more memorable was that Adolph Hitler expected the Olympic Games to be a German showcase. In fact, he criticized the United States for even including black athletes on its Olympic roster. According to many reports, after Owens won his fourth gold medal, Hitler stormed out of the stadium. In 1936 Jesse Owens took a stand...
6) Long-armed Ludy and the first women's Olympics: based on the true story of Lucile Ellerbe Godbold
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Publication Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 0.5
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
Publication 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
Publisher
Edge of Sports c/o Akashic Books
Publication 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,...
9) Jesse Owens
Author
Publication Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the life of the sharecroppers' son who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and challenged Hitler's notion of Aryan superiority.
11) Track and field
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Publication Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
Describes the history of track competitions, the various events involved, as well as several of the stars in this sport.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Publication Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
"A thrilling graphic novel about Wilma Rudolph, who overcame obstacles and odds to become one of the greatest track stars of all time! When Wilma Rudolph was just a young girl, she lost strength in her leg and foot after contracting polio. Forced to wear a leg brace until she was nine, she was told that she might never walk the way she used to again. But none of this could stop her from becoming one of the fastest women in the world and winning three...
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Publication Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
On your mark, get set, go! Readers will see if they can keep up as they race to read more about the fastest sprinters, longest jumpers, and strongest throwers of track and field.
Publisher
FUNimation
Publication Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Yamato transfers to a new high school, and is smitten with track star Suzuka, but she's totally out of his league, pretty, popular and with something to prove. Yamato joins the track team to impress her, but he'll have to go the distance to break through to her heart.
20) Boundless
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Publication Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Everything seemed set against Chaunté Lowe. Growing up with a single mother in Paso Robles, California, where she experienced food insecurity, homelessness, and domestic abuse, Chaunté 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, Chaunté knew what she wanted to do. She started...