Title:
State : a team, a triumph, a transformation / Melissa Isaacson.
ISBN:
9781572842663
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Chicago : Midway, An Agate Imprint, 2019.
©2019
Physical Description:
xvii, 301 pages ; 23 cm
General Note:
Includes reading group guide.
Contents:
Our coach -- "Well, I guess I'll go try sports" -- Grovers and Wooders and Billy Schnurr -- Inappropriate cheering and the half-court shot -- "Son, son, get up!" -- New beginnings, new rituals -- Shirley's arm, Bridget's face, and mighty Hinsdale South -- Dark secrets -- Shirley's gremlin and those weird lumps -- Addition by subtraction -- Having it all -- The mighty Susies and other technicalities -- The ultimate slap -- Saturday Night Fever and a Champaign hangover -- Big whip -- Safe haven -- Earl's girls -- Dreidl, dreidl, dreidl -- Let it snow -- Perfect shmerfect -- Joy is... -- Why not us? -- April fools.
Summary:
The unlikely story of a Chicago high school basketball team that became one of their state's first-ever girls' basketball champions after the passage of Title IX, which banned gender discrimination in school athletics.
Personal Subject:
OCLC Number:
on1083458577
Availability:
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