Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discover Aly Raisman's inspiring story of dedication, perseverance, and learning to think positive even in the toughest times on her path to gold medal success in two Olympic Games--and beyond.
Aly Raisman first stepped onto a gymnastics mat as a toddler in a "mommy & me" gymnastics class. No one could have predicted then that sixteen years later, she'd be standing on an Olympic podium, having achieved her dreams.
Aly's road to success was full...
2) Hotshot
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Peyton Lockhart and her sisters have inherited Bishop's Cove, a small, luxurious oceanfront resort, but it comes with a condition: The girls must run the resort for one year and show a profit. Only then will they own it. A graduate of a prestigious French culinary school, Peyton has just lost her job as a food critic. Out of work and in a bad place personally, a year doing something completely different sounds wonderful. There are countless challenges...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Two worlds collide when cycling legend Jonathan "Jock" Boyer moves to Rwanda to help the first Rwandan National Cycling Team in their six year journey to compete in the Olympic Games. Against impossible odds both Jock and the team find new purpose as they rise from the ashes of their past. Stunningly filmed, Rising From Ashes follows Jock (the first American to compete in the Tour de France) and his Rwandan riders as they slowly learn what it means...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Olympian and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally ready to share the vivid and heartbreaking story of how the world came to know her name. Thrust into the spotlight at just eighteen years old after winning the Berlin World Championships in 2009, Semenya's win was quickly overshadowed by criticism and speculation about her body, and she became the center of a still-raging firestorm about how gender plays out in sports, our expectations of female...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
"The inspiring and irresistible true story of the women who broke barriers and finish-line ribbons in pursuit of Olympic Gold When Betty Robinson assumed the starting position at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, she was participating in what was only her fourth-ever organized track meet. She crossed the finish line as a gold medalist and the fastest woman in the world. This improbable athletic phenom was an ordinary high school student, discovered...
6) Gravity
Author
Publisher
Make Me a World
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gravity Delgado has been breaking records and competitors since she started boxing with a legendary coach at age twelve, and now will reach the Olympics if her home life and romance do not distract her.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary story of the small Vermont town that has likely produced more Olympians per capita than any other place in the country--and whose citizens provide a model for achieving excellence while leading a well-rounded life. Norwich, a charming Vermont town of roughly three thousand residents, has sent an athlete to almost every Winter Olympics for the past thirty years--and three times that athlete has returned with a medal. How does Norwich...
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen, a Tom Doherty Associates book
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Olivia Kennedy, daughter of two Olympians, is disappointed when her competitive figure skating dreams come to a halt, but is excited to enjoy being a regular teenager, that is until her rival starts training at her parents' struggling rink and her life becomes more complicated.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"US Olympian Aly Raisman is a leader in and out of the gym. She has risen to great prominence as an outspoken voice against sexual assault. This title covers the most fascinating details of her life as a gold-winning gymnast"--
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When Alexi Pappas was four years old, her mother committed suicide, drastically altering the course of Pappas's life and setting her on a perpetual search for female role models. When her father started signing her up for sports teams as a way to keep his bereaved daughter busy, female athletes became some of the first women Pappas looked up to, and she became a girl with a goal: to be an Olympian. Despite setbacks and hardships, Pappas held fast...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request