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Author Deans, Karen, author.

Title Playing to win : how Althea Gibson broke barriers and changed tennis forever / Karen Deans ; illustrated by Elbrite Brown.

Publication Info. New York : Holiday House, [2021]

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department  JB GIBSON    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Children's Department  J BIO GIBSON    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Children's Department  JJ-B GIBSON, ALTHEA    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department  JB GIBSON    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Children's Department  JB GIBSON ALTHEA    DUE 05-08-24
 Wethersfield Public Library - Children's Department  J BIOG GIBSON, ALTHEA    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Children's Department  JB-GIBSON, A.    Check Shelf
Description 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Growing up in Harlem, Althea Gibson was heading down the wrong path until she found her calling. She went on to become the first African American women to be ranked as the number one woman tennis player in the world.
Subject Gibson, Althea, 1927-2003 -- Juvenile literature.
Tennis players -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American women tennis players -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Tennis players -- Biography.
African American women tennis players -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Author Brown, Elbrite, illustrator.
ISBN 9780823448531 (paperback)
0823448533 (paperback)
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