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Author Deans, Karen.

Title Playing to win : the story of Althea Gibson / by Karen Deans ; illustrated by Elbrite Brown.

Publication Info. New York : Holiday House, 2007.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Children's Department  J 92 GIBSON    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department  JB GIBSON    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Children's Department  J BIO GIBSON, ALTHEA    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 796.342 GIBSON    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Children's Biography  J B-GIBSON DEA    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Children's Department  J B GIBSON    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Children's Department  JB-GIBSON, A.    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR LG 5.6 0.5 115902.
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection
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.
Gibson, Althea, 1927-2003.
Tennis players -- Biography.
African American women tennis players -- Biography.
Added Author Brown, Elbrite, illustrator.
ISBN 0823419266 reinforced $16.95
9780823419265 reinforced $16.95
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