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They clamored for tickets and caused near riots at the box office of the 69th Regiment Armory, the site of the barnstorming Derby’s 17-day visit to the city. Many of the fans who were turned away from the sold-out bouts were determined to catch the action on television, the miracle machine that was just beginning to find its footing in New York homes. Television made instant celebrities of the Derby’s daredevils skaters, and none became more famous than rivals Gerry Murray and Midge “Toughie” Brasuhn. Roller Derby Rivals takes an up-close-and-personal look at one bout during the Derby’s historic visit to New York, with Toughie and Gerry leading the way. Thanks to illustrator Matt Collins, the action is as colorful and exciting as it was back in the day. Published by Holiday House, 2014 • 32 pages • Ages 6 to 10 • ISBN 978-0-8234-2923-3 (Hardback); 978-0-8234-4185-3 (Paperback) • A Junior Library Guild Selection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7944027274dd534852a034/1577823012577-GQTOPD6BG9F0RAMXOMKL/Trudy.jpg Nonfiction Picture Books - Trudy’s Big Swim How Gertrude Ederle Swam the English Channel and Took the World by Storm Illustrated by Matt Collins Gertrude Ederle and I go way back. In the early 1980s, when I was just starting out, I wrote a classroom play for Scholastic Action magazine about Trudy’s English Channel swim. When my editors at Holiday House offered me the chance to revisit this defining moment in women’s sports, I began by digging through my old files. It was a great starting point, but a lot had happened since then. My experience writing more than a dozen books on sports history gave me new perspective on Trudy’s accomplishments. Meanwhile, other authors had written insightful books about her. I had the opportunity to meet one of them—Trudy’s niece, Mary Ederle Ward—and hear her memories of her aunt. I also had the benefit of working with Matt Collins, my collaborator on two previous picture books, who brought Trudy’s swim to life with extraordinary drama and style. I’m excited that readers who might not know Trudy’s story can take the plunge with our book. Published by Holiday House, 2017 • 32 pages • Ages 6 to 10 • ISBN 978-0-8234-3665-1 (Hardback); 978-0-8234-4189-1 (Paperback) • A Junior Library Guild Selection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7944027274dd534852a034/1577821120577-UV3VAYWP6S6GXHUZFEWJ/BasketballBelles.jpg Nonfiction Picture Books - Basketball Belles How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women's Hoops on the Map Illustrated by Matt Collins On April 4, 1896, eighteen players—nine per team—stormed onto the improvised basketball court at San Francisco’s Page Street Armory to make sports history. The players, from Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley, were about to square off in the first basketball game ever between two women’s college teams. Among those leading the charge for Stanford was Agnes Morley, who would later recount the details of the game to her classmates back at school. I decided to tell the story of this game through Agnes’s eyes in a picture book—my first—because I wanted readers to be right there as the players jumped, lunged, dove, and scrambled. Fortunately, my editors at Holiday House chose the perfect illustrator to capture the excitement and elegance of the game, Matt Collins. It was the beginning of a three-book collaboration. Published by Holiday House, 2011 • 32 pages • Ages 6 to 10 • ISBN 978-0-8234-2163-3 (Hardback); 978-0-8234-4175-4 (Paperback) • A Junior Library Guild Selection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7944027274dd534852a034/1577822295632-8TNRRDYOFZCU6KMCNDNT/BookRescuer2.JPG Nonfiction Picture Books - The Book Rescuer How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come Illustrated by Stacy Innerst Winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award for Picture Books, 2020 My Grandma Adel was on my mind a lot while I was writing The Book Rescuer. My mom’s mother was a native Yiddish speaker who immigrated to the United States soon after the end of World War I. Like many Jewish immigrants, my grandmother did her best to learn the language of her adopted country, taking classes at night school and speaking English as often as she could. She still spoke to her children in Yiddish, but she only shared a few phrases with me and her seven grandsons. When I was searching for the right tone to tell this story, I channeled Grandma Adel. Using English with some Yiddish words thrown in, I tried my best to recreate the warm, haimishe lilt of her voice. I wish she’d had the chance to meet Aaron Lansky and see how successful he’s been in his efforts to rescue Yiddish books and resurrect interest in the language and its literature. She would have kvelled. Published by Paula Wiseman Books/Simon & Schuster, 2019 • 48 pages • Ages 5 to 8 • ISBN 978-1-4814-7220-3 • A Junior Library Guild Selection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7944027274dd534852a034/1577991925832-TR1BIDPLDS6NG4SC9A1K/MissMaryFIN.jpg Nonfiction Picture Books - Miss Mary Reporting The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber Illustrated by C. F. Payne When I was growing up in the 1960s and ‘70s, the newspaper was my window on the world. I began every morning at the kitchen table, reading whichever section of the New York Times I could get my hands on—preferably Sports. After school, I pored over our local paper, the Passaic-Clifton Herald-News. Starting when I was 16, I actually worked for that paper, spending three summers writing feature stories, obituaries, and answers to readers’ questions in the consumer help column. Needless to say, Mary Garber was a woman after my own heart. Mary worked as a sports reporter for close to six decades. Along the way she recorded the achievements and nurtured the dreams of thousands of young athletes in her home state of North Carolina and beyond. She also became a role model for budding reporters, especially women trying to make it in the often-unwelcoming field of sports journalism. I had a great time learning about Mary and I think C.F. Payne did a terrific job bringing her to life with his illustrations. I hope you enjoy getting to know her. Published by Paula Wiseman Books/Simon & Schuster, 2016 • 40 pages • Ages 5 to 8 • ISBN 978-1-4814-0120-3 • A Junior Library Guild Selection https://www.suemacy.com/middle-grade-biographies daily 0.75 2020-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7944027274dd534852a034/1578165589805-7IH5DAZCK33E9UAZK7D3/SallyRide_FIn.jpg Middle-Grade Biographies - Sally Ride Life on a Mission Sally Ride was an athlete, a scientist, a teacher, a writer, and most of all, an astronaut. On a warm, sunny morning in June 1983, Sally made history when she and four male astronauts blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger. After more than two decades of watching heroic men journey skyward, Americans finally saw a woman join their ranks. Although I never met her, Sally Ride was an important person in my life, a touchstone for the unlimited possibilities for women of my generation. So when an editor friend asked if I’d be interested in writing a biography of Sally, I jumped at the chance. I wanted to understand more about this strong, unassuming pioneer. As I researched her life, I saw some similarities with mine. Both of us were born in the early 1950s. Both of us were tomboys who loved sports and hated piano lessons. Those similarities helped me understand where Sally was coming from, and made me marvel all the more at where she ended up. Published by Aladdin/Simon & Schuster, 2014 • 152 pages • Ages 8 to 12 • ISBN 978-1-4424-8854-0 (Hardback); 978-1-4424-8855-7 (Paperback) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7944027274dd534852a034/1576079282489-TV9JONU9OSW3O7Q2FFCD/Bylines_FIN.jpg Middle-Grade Biographies - Bylines A Photobiography of Nellie Bly Foreword by Linda Ellerbee Nina Brown Baker’s book Nellie Bly, Reporter, captured my imagination when I was a girl. This dramatic account of Nellie’s adventures inspired the budding writer in me as much as Louise Fitzhugh’s novel, Harriet the Spy. I still have my Scholastic paperback edition of Baker’s book, and even though I now know that it’s full of factual errors, I cherish it as one of the volumes that set me on my career path. I relished the prospect of digging deeper into Nellie Bly’s life, and I was not disappointed by what I found. Her investigative reports were remarkable and her profiles of influential personalities were candid and revealing. Nellie Bly helped open up the field of journalism for women, but she also ushered all reporters into an era when the power of the press could be harnessed to effect social change. With fierce determination and admirable skill, she communicated the struggles and challenges faced by her fellow citizens. Writing about her life confirmed what I suspected all those years ago. Nellie Bly is a worthy role model for aspiring writers and everyone else who hopes to make his or her mark on the world. Published by National Geographic, 2009 • 64 pages • Ages 10 & up • ISBN 978-1-4263-0513-9 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7944027274dd534852a034/1576079669694-ZIYHCW343VNUUEV9NJYU/Bull%27s-Eye_FIN.jpg Middle-Grade Biographies - Bull’s-Eye A Photobiography of Annie Oakley Foreword by Bess Edwards In college I had a professor who wrote a 500-page biography of the late Russian leader, Josef Stalin. When I accepted the assignment to write my first biography, about Annie Oakley, I was told the book would be 64 pages long. How could I capture Annie Oakley’s life in only 64 pages, especially when I quickly learned there were disagreements about such an essential fact as her last name? (Some people thought she was born Phoebe Ann Moses; others said Phoebe Ann Mozee.) I did my best to sort out the true story of Annie Oakley, and when there were conflicting “facts,” I made sure to say so. But beyond the year-by-year account of her life, there was one crucial element that I wanted to get across in Bull’s-Eye: Annie’s character. As a celebrity and Wild West star, Annie Oakley worked hard to live up to the highest standards of behavior and fair play. She would not cheat in her performances, and she could not tolerate anyone questioning her integrity. She set out to be a role model and she was, raising vast sums for charity and giving free lessons to an estimated 15,000 women so they could learn to shoot for sport and protection. Those actions say much more about the woman than the correct spelling of her last name. Published by National Geographic, 2001 • 64 pages • Ages 10 & up • ISBN 978-0-7922-7008-9 (Hardback); 978-1-4263-2218-1 (Paperback) https://www.suemacy.com/everything-else daily 0.75 2020-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7944027274dd534852a034/1578842952256-FKBYA60KQK1QLMATIJQB/PlayLikeaGirl.jpg Everything Else - Play Like a Girl A Celebration of Women In Sports Edited With Jane Gottesman Play Like a Girl is a love letter to female athletes. It’s not a big book, but it’s full of honest emotions and admiration for girls and women who play sports. It celebrates the way female athletes approach sports today—with joy and intensity and a feeling of ownership. That’s a great departure from their predecessors, who for much of the 20th century had to fight for the right to compete. My co-editor, Jane Gottesman, was the curator of Game Face, a traveling museum exhibit and book project that presented photographic images of female athletes. For Play Like a Girl, Jane and I searched stories, poems, articles, and books for excerpts that presented sports from a female perspective. We paired those words with dramatic photographs to create a photo essay that aims to capture the power and the glory of the female athletic experience. Published by Henry Holt and Company, 1999 • 32 pages • Ages 10 & up • ISBN 0-8050-6071-5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7944027274dd534852a034/1579135650576-YZAA3TDAEVU2NA4OP4BV/GirlsGotGame_FIN.jpg Everything Else - Girls Got Game Sports Stories & Poems Editor and Contributor Years ago, I came across two short story collections that planted the seeds for Girls Got Game. The first was Companions of Our Youth: Stories by Women for Young People's Magazines, 1865-1900, edited by Jane Benardete and Phyllis Moe (Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1980). The second was A Century of Children's Baseball Stories, edited by Debra Dagavarian (Stadium Books, 1990). Both books resurrected short stories from the past, and they fired my imagination with tales of days gone by. Reading those anthologies inspired me to put together a contemporary collection of stories that reflect the presence of sports in girls’ lives. So I contacted authors—and some poets—who I knew or suspected had been athletes themselves. We ended up with an all-star team of contributors: Linnea Due, Virginia Euwer Wolff, Christa Champion, Felicia E. Halpert, Jacqueline Woodson, Nola Thacker, Nancy Boutilier, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, June A. English, Grace Butcher, Pat Connolly, and me! Published by Henry Holt and Company, 2001 • 152 pages • Ages 10 & up • ISBN 0-8050-6568-7 • A Junior Library Guild Selection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7944027274dd534852a034/1578072772071-2UARVA0Y50LI1W92VMM3/BarbieShooting.jpg Everything Else - Barbie: Shooting Hoops How does a non-fiction author come to write a storybook featuring Barbie? It all started when my friend, Jackie Glasthal, called to tell me that Golden Books had decided to produce an Amazing Athlete series where Barbie played a different sport in each book. “We’re going to start with basketball.,” she said. “Do you want to write the book?” I was never much of a Barbie fan—I always preferred playing sports to dolls—but this was a challenge that appealed to me. I named the two main characters after my niece Hannah and her best friend Crystal. And I named Coach Janssen after one of my favorite players from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, Fran Janssen. Fran was particularly happy that the art director chose a redheaded doll to portray the coach. As a ballplayer, Fran’s nickname had been “Big Red,” due, of course, to the color of her hair. Published by Golden Books, 1999 • 24 pages • Ages 4 to 7 • ISBN 0-307-13256-0 https://www.suemacy.com/young-adult-social-histories daily 0.75 2020-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7944027274dd534852a034/1577986556998-5MA4GDRP5ILLCOT0ZP71/FreezeFrame.jpg Young Adult Social Histories - Freeze Frame A Photographic History of the Winter Olympics Foreword by Peggy Fleming It takes a certain type of person to speed headfirst down an icy skeleton course or launch himself off a 120-meter hill with only skis and poles to break his fall. As a rather timid writer who practically hibernates during the winter months, I can only watch such daredevil competitors with a combination of shock and awe. So imagine my surprise when I was completely won over by the stories of the men and women who have competed in the Winter Games. It was impossible not to admire the valor and passion of athletes like early bobsled champ Billy Fiske, ice dancing masters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, and indomitable speedskater Bonnie Blair. Another factor in my newfound enthusiasm for the Winter Olympics is the relatively intimate nature of the gathering. With only about one-quarter the number of events and athletes as the Summer Olympics, the Winter Games seem more manageable, somehow, and more accessible. There are fewer athletes to focus on and fewer events to watch, so the stories that can be told are deeper and more complex. Freeze Frame presents those stories for hibernating sports fans everywhere. Published by National Geographic, 2006 • 96 pages • Ages 10 & up • ISBN 978-0-7922-7887-0 • A Junior Library Guild Selection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7944027274dd534852a034/1577996717823-O0KWCCC8LVXN8H7HGE9X/Motor_Girls.jpg Young Adult Social Histories - Motor Girls How Women Took the Wheel and Drove Boldly Into the Twentieth Century Foreword by Danica Patrick When I set out to write Motor Girls, I started with the question, “Then what?” In my previous book for National Geographic, Wheels of Change, I had chronicled the liberating impact that the bicycle had on women’s lives in the 1890s. But what happened to these women as automobiles started crowding bikes off the roads in the 20th century? Did they grab the steering wheel and continue to drive toward equality, or did they take a back seat to men? As I suspected, it was a bumpy transition. Many people saw the automobile as an inappropriate vehicle for women to drive. But that changed, thanks to technological innovations, the determination of some colorful “motor girls,” and historic developments—such as World War I—that gave women the chance to prove their skills in very challenging situations. You can read all about it in Motor Girls! Published by National Geographic, 2017 • 96 pages • Ages 10 & up • ISBN 978-1-4263-2697-4 • A Junior Library Guild Selection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7944027274dd534852a034/1577998650940-6VZYPLMUV0B7TELMMCEX/WheelsofChange.jpg Young Adult Social Histories - Wheels of Change How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) Foreword by Leah Missbach Day, Cofounder, World Bicycle Relief I first came across Susan B. Anthony’s declaration that bicycling “has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world” way back in 1995, when I was doing the research for my book, Winning Ways. I had always been intrigued by Anthony’s impression of the importance of the bicycle, and I was equally curious about the fact that Frances Willard, president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, had written an entire book on the epiphanies she had while learning to ride a bicycle at age 53. With two of the nineteenth century’s leading feminists attributing the liberation of women to the two-wheeler, it seemed there was a larger story to be told. There certainly was! Because of the bicycle, women in the 1890s started to exercise on a grand scale, strengthening their legs and their lungs as they pedaled for hours on end. They found more practical, “rational,” forms of dress as corsets and heavy petticoats were downright dangerous on a bicycle. And they left behind the strict social conventions that required staid dates overseen by chaperones, instead embracing the freedom of socializing on the road. What’s more, the bicycle didn’t only affect women’s lives. Cyclists campaigned for good roads, literally changed the landscape of the United States as more and more streets were paved. And the burgeoning bicycle industry introduced modern advertising techniques, using posters and pumping ad dollars into cycling publications to sell their wares. The cycling craze of the 1890s did indeed set the Wheels of Change in motion as a new century was about to begin. Published by National Geographic, 2011 • 96 pages • Ages 10 & up • ISBN 978-1-4263-0761-4 (Hardback; 978-1-4263-2855-8 (Paperback) • A Junior Library Guild Selection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7944027274dd534852a034/1577982536063-UCANDYLU1BV9N5HRWBW2/WholeNewBallGame.jpg Young Adult Social Histories - A Whole New Ball Game The Story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League I was astonished the first time I first saw the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League mentioned in a book on women’s history. I grew up a huge baseball fan, but I never had a clue that women had played the game in organized leagues, let alone as pros. (This was years before the movie, A League of Their Own.) I remember a tingling feeling creeping up neck—a sure sign that this discovery was epic. I hurried to the library as soon as I could and stayed until I had photocopies of half a dozen articles about the league from the 1940s and 50s. It was the start of 11 years of research. Along the way I got to know hundreds of ballplayers. A Whole New Ball Game reflects the memories that they shared with me. In it, you’ll read about the everyday players and the superstars, life on the field and adventures on the road. You’ll find statistics, accounts of games, and close to 60 photos, many from the players’ private collections. Writing A Whole New Ball Game was a labor of love for me, just as playing baseball was for them. I hope you enjoy it! Published by Henry Holt and Company, 1993 • Paperback by Puffin Books, 1995 • 140 pages • Ages 10 & up • ISBN 0-8050-1942-1 (Hardback); 0-14-037423-X (Puffin Paperback); 978-1-6277-9060-4 (Holt Trade Paperback) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7944027274dd534852a034/1577985195007-QNAPO7O2W7004ZO0ADIA/SwifterHigherStronger.jpg Young Adult Social Histories - Swifter, Higher, Stronger A Photographic History of the Summer Olympics Foreword by Bob Costas When I was a kid, summertime meant lots of hours spent playing sports. I swam, perfected my volleyball serve, hit home runs, and even excelled as a “sharpshooter” in riflery. Although girls at my summer camp were encouraged to compete, there usually weren’t many female athletes for us to look up to. But that changed when the Summer Olympics rolled around. Every four years, female competitors seemed to come out of nowhere to fill us with awe and capture our imaginations. During those Olympic summers, I was glued to the TV set cheering for the women—and men—who were reaching new heights as athletes. So it’s not surprising that I jumped at the chance years later when my editor suggested writing a history of the Summer Olympics. I started by examining each Olympiad and determining what made it special. Then I thought about which athletes to highlight and which themes to focus on. As I immersed myself in Olympic history, I was awed by the athletes’ heroics all over again. Even today, the first strains of the Olympic Fanfare send chills up my spine as I get ready for another fortnight of amazing, inspiring athletic feats. Published by National Geographic, 2004; Updated in 2008 • 96 pages • Ages 10 & up • ISBN 0-7922-6667-6 (2004 edition); 978-1-4263-0290-9 (2008 edition) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7944027274dd534852a034/1578015146555-UA83R9LUJPHTCIWRUQY7/Breaking.jpg Young Adult Social Histories - Breaking Through How Female Athletes Shattered Stereotypes in the Roaring Twenties Foreword by Muffet McGraw, Head Coach, Notre Dame University Women’s Basketball In the 1920s, women had to be downright revolutionary to compete in sports. Exercising was acceptable. Most people by then understood that physical fitness was beneficial to women’s health. But cutthroat competition was another thing entirely. Physical educators rallied to quash competition, worrying that women’s aggression in sports contests would undermine their femininity. And male sportswriters ruthlessly—and sometimes gleefullly—editorialized that competition made female athletes ugly and unappealing. Despite these critics, women in the Roaring Twenties embraced sports—and competition—like never before. They made headlines, broke records, and sometimes even beat men at their own games. The inspirational female sports stars of the 21st century owe much to the women who staked their claim to athletic glory one hundred years ago. Breaking Through tells their story. Published by National Geographic, 2020 • 96 pages • Ages 10 & up • ISBN 978-1-4263-3676-8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d7944027274dd534852a034/1577995524178-RS7DXZCFUTJIB5C7W2PM/WinningWays.jpg Young Adult Social Histories - Winning Ways A Photohistory of American Women in Sports After I finished A Whole New Ball Game, I had a hard time deciding on a topic for a follow-up book. I wanted to continue writing about women’s sports, but no single athlete or event jumped out at me. In an effort to put things in perspective, I compiled a list of “firsts” in women’s sports and thought about major trends and turning points. Eventually, I realized that this research could form the backbone of a book. Winning Ways is called a "photohistory" because it uses more than 100 photographs to tell the story of the struggles and triumphs of women athletes in the United States. But it’s also a social history because it looks at the relationship between women’s participation in sports and changing ideas about women’s roles in society. I studied women’s history in college, so Winning Ways gave me a chance to go back to my old books and think about sports in terms of what I read back when. But the driving force behind Winning Ways was my hunger to learn more about all of those groundbreaking women who had been forgotten by history. 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