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Summary: Coach Clay Driscoll is a small town basketball coach who seems to have everything going against him. A team he doesn't want. A town that doesn't support girl's sports and small town politics that threaten to undermine any chance he has of winning. But his pride and his "girls" refuse to let him quit. Both the young women and their hard-headed coach fight for equality and a share of the dream,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: GT Media 2007

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEL

Tavares, Matt

Summary: "A work of fiction inspired by a true story, Matt Tavares's debut graphic novel dramatizes the historic struggle for gender equality in high school sports. It is 1975 in Indiana, and the Wilkins Regional High School girls' basketball team is in their rookie season. Despite being undefeated, they practice at night in the elementary school and play to empty bleachers. Unlike the boys' team, the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC TAY (GRAPHIC NOVEL)

Peavy, Linda S.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.323 PEA

Rogers, Amy B.

Summary: How can a girl go from playing basketball in gym class to becoming a WNBA superstar? The journey starts by learning as much as possible about the sport of basketball. Through manageable text, a detailed graphic organizer, and fun fact boxes, readers explore basketball basics. They also discover stories of some of the most famous women to ever play the game. Full-color photographs show girls and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.323 ROG

Summary: This passionate and inspirational documentary goes up close and personal to capture the Roosevelt Roughriders girls' basketball team during six turbulent seasons, taking us far beyond the court to the unbridled desire to make history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HEA

Misako Rokkusu

Summary: Lilico's life in Japan is going well. She has great friends and is the captain of the school's basketball team. She's happy! Then comes her parents' news: they're moving to America! Before she knows it, Lilico finds herself in Brooklyn, New York, forced to start all over. And that won't be easy with her closest friends thousands of miles away or a school bully who immediately dislikes her....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MIS

Papademetriou, Lisa.

Summary: When Nicolette Spicer, Nick to her friends, meets Ben who seems to go for girly girls, Nick, who is a tomboy, considers a makeover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC PAP

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wish Pub. 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.323 FIV

Parker, Robert B.

Summary: Fourteen-year-old Bobby, living in a small Massachusetts town just after World War II, finds himself facing many new challenges as he tries to pull together his coachless basketball team, cope with new feelings for his old friend Joanie, and discover the identity of the mysterious stranger who seems to be threatening his teacher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleuth Philomel 2007

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAR

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