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Author Reid, Megan, author.

Title Althea Gibson : the story of tennis' fleet-of-foot girl / written by Megan Reid ; illustrated by Laura Freeman.

Publication Info. New York, York : Balzar + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]

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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
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Children's Department  PEOPLE & PLACES E GIB    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Children's Department  JB GIBSON R    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
 Manchester, Main Library - Children's Department  J-B GIBSON, ALTHEA    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Whiton Branch - Children's Department  J-B GIBSON, ALTHEA    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Children's Biography  J B-GIBSON REI    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department  JB GIBSON    Check Shelf

Edition First edition
Description 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page [34]).
Summary Althea Gibson was the quickest, tallest, most fearless athlete in 1940s Harlem. She couldn't sit still! When she put her mind to it, the fleet-of-foot girl reigned supreme at every sport--stickball with the boys, basketball with the girls, paddle tennis with anyone who would hit with her. But being the quickest, tallest, most fearless player in Harlem wasn't enough for Althea. She knew she could be a tennis champion. Because of segregation, black people weren't allowed to compete against white people in sports. Althea didn't care. She just wanted to play tennis against the best athletes in the world. And with skill and determination, she did just that, eventually becoming the first black person--man or woman--to win a trophy at Wimbledon.
Subject Gibson, Althea, 1927-2003 -- Juvenile literature.
African American women tennis players -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women tennis players -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Tennis players -- Juvenile literature.
African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Picture books.
Added Author Freeman, Laura (Illustrator), illustrator.
ISBN 9780062851093 (hardcover)
0062851098 (hardcover)
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