Basketball Belles
What's This Book About
Raised on a cattle ranch, Agnes Morley was sent to Stanford University to learn to be a lady. Yet in no time she exchanged her breeches and spurs for bloomers and a basketball, and in April 1896 she made history. In a heart-pounding game against the University of California at Berkeley, Agnes led her team to victory in the first-ever intercollegiate women’s basketball game, bringing national attention to women’s basketball.
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The Creatives Behind the Book
Sue Macy is the acclaimed author of many books for young readers, including Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber, which was on the Amelia Bloomer List and named a CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book, among many other accolades. Sue is also the author of Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom and Basketball Belles: How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women’s Hoops on the Map. A former editor at Scholastic, she lives in Englewood, New Jersey. Learn more at SueMacy.com.
Matt Collins has illustrated numerous picture books for children. Publishers Weekly praised his “dynamic” and “painterly” illustrations for Basketball Belles, and in a starred review, Booklist lauded the art’s “clever details that contribute to the you-are-there feeling.” He lives in Connecticut.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780823421633
- Publication Date
- February 7, 2011
- Publisher
- Holiday House
- Original Publication Date
- April 1, 2011
- Page Count
- 32
- Word Count
- 965
- Audience
- Picture
- Reading Age
- 6 - 10 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 2009042498
- Lexile® Level
- AD700L
- Scholastic Level
- P
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~Q
- ATOS® Book Level
- 3.9
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 0.5
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 142568
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- LG
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