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Author Isaacson, Melissa, author.

Title State : a team, a triumph, a transformation / Melissa Isaacson.

Publication Info. Chicago : Midway, An Agate Imprint, 2019.
©2019

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Location Call No. Status
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  796.3236 ISA    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  796.323 ISAACSON    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xvii, 301 pages ; 23 cm
Note Includes reading group guide.
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.
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.
Subject Isaacson, Melissa.
Niles West High School (Skokie, Ill.) -- Basketball -- History -- 20th century.
United States. Education Amendments of 1972. Title IX.
Basketball for girls -- Illinois -- Skokie -- History -- 20th century.
Sex discrimination in sports -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century.
Women basketball players -- Illinois -- Biography.
Education Amendments of 1972 (United States) (OCoLC)fst01361245
Basketball. (OCoLC)fst00828203
Basketball for girls. (OCoLC)fst00828262
Sex discrimination in sports. (OCoLC)fst01114442
Women basketball players. (OCoLC)fst01177350
Illinois. (OCoLC)fst01205143
Illinois -- Skokie. (OCoLC)fst01206854
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Autobiographies.
Other Form: Online version: Isaacson, Melissa, author. State First edition. Chicago : Midway, An Agate Imprint, 2019 9781572848252 (DLC) 2019017257
ISBN 9781572842663 (hardcover)
1572842660 (hardcover)
9781572848252 (ebook)
1572848251 (ebook)
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