Sports Biographies for kids

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Updated April 25, 2024
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12 athletes with disabilities
Mattern, Joanne
Wilma Rudolph overcame polio to win three Olympic gold medals. South Korea's Im Dong-hyun won Olympic gold in archery, and he's legally blind. Race car driver Alex Zanardi lost both of his legs in a crash. Today he's a champion hand cyclist. This book spotlights 12 athletes from around the world who...
I am not a label : [34 disabled artists, thinkers, athletes and activists from past and present]
Burnell, Cerrie
Jesse Owens : gold medal hero
Gigliotti, Jim.
From humble beginnings and a childhood marked by disease and poverty, Jesse Owens sprinted to Olympic gold.  His success in the 1936 Berlin games was a victory for equality--and an affront to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s view of Aryan supremacy.  The...
Stephen Curry
Fishman, Jon M.
NBA scouts nearly overlooked point guard Stephen Curry. Most NBA stars come from well-known schools, but not Stephen. He played for Davidson College in North Carolina, where he set the all-time scoring record for his university and his conference. In 2007-2008, he set the all-time college record...
Zion Williamson
Wetzel, Dan
In the illustrated sports biography, Epic Athletes: Zion Williamson, acclaimed journalist Dan Wetzel tells the inspirational story of the greatest basketball prospect of his generation. Following Zion Williamson's record-breaking season at Duke University...

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