Warrior Girls

Warrior Girls

Author: Michael Sokolove

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-06-03

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1416579621

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Amy Steadman was destined to become one of the great women's soccer players of her generation. "The best of the best," Parade magazine called her as she left high school and headed off to the University of North Carolina. Instead, by age twenty, Amy had undergone five surgeries on her right knee. She had to give up the sport she loved. She walked with a stiff gait, like an elderly woman, and found it painful to get out of bed in the morning. Warrior Girls exposes the downside of the women's sports revolution that has evolved since Title IX: an injury epidemic that is easily ignored because we worry that it will threaten our daughters' hard-won opportunities on the field. From teenage girls playing local soccer, basketball, lacrosse, volleyball, and other sports to women competing at the elite level, female athletes are suffering serious injuries at alarming rates. The numbers are frightening and irrefutable. Young female athletes tear their ACLs, the stabilizing ligament in the knee, at rates as high as eight times greater than their male counterparts. Women's collegiate soccer players suffer concussions at the same rate as college football players. From head to toe, female athletes suffer higher rates of injury, and many of them play through constant pain. Michael Sokolove gives us the most up-to-date research on girls and sports injuries. He takes us into the homes and hearts of female athletes, into operating theaters where orthopedic surgeons reconstruct shredded knees, and onto the practice field of famed University of North Carolina soccer coach Anson Dorrance. Exhaustively researched and strongly argued, Warrior Girls is an urgent wake-up call for parents and coaches. Sokolove connects the culture of youth sports -- the demands for girls to specialize in a single sport by age ten or younger, and to play it year-round -- directly to the injury epidemic. Devoted to the ideal of team, and deeply bonded with teammates, these tough girls don't want to leave the field even when confronted with serious injury and chronic pain. Warrior Girls shows how girls can train better and smarter to decrease their risks. It makes clear that parents must come together and demand changes to a sports culture that manufactures injuries. Well-documented, opinionated, and controversial, Warrior Girls shows that all girls can safeguard themselves on the field without sacrificing their hard-won right to be there.


Warrior Girl

Warrior Girl

Author: Pauline Chandler

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2006-01-31

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 0060841028

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Although surrounded by treachery, Mariane, a young mute, battles alongside her cousin, Joan of Arc, for the liberation of France from the English.


Firekeeper's Daughter

Firekeeper's Daughter

Author: Angeline Boulley

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

Published: 2021-03-16

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 1250766575

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A PRINTZ MEDAL WINNER! A MORRIS AWARD WINNER! AN AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD YA HONOR BOOK! A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller Soon to be adapted at Netflix for TV with President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground. “One of this year's most buzzed about young adult novels.” —Good Morning America A TIME Magazine Best YA Book of All Time Selection Amazon's Best YA Book of 2021 So Far (June 2021) A 2021 Kids' Indie Next List Selection An Entertainment Weekly Most Anticipated Books of 2021 Selection A PopSugar Best March 2021 YA Book Selection With four starred reviews, Angeline Boulley's debut novel, Firekeeper's Daughter, is a groundbreaking YA thriller about a Native teen who must root out the corruption in her community, perfect for readers of Angie Thomas and Tommy Orange. Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi’s hockey team. Yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie, she senses the dashing hockey star is hiding something. Everything comes to light when Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, thrusting her into an FBI investigation of a lethal new drug. Reluctantly, Daunis agrees to go undercover, drawing on her knowledge of chemistry and Ojibwe traditional medicine to track down the source. But the search for truth is more complicated than Daunis imagined, exposing secrets and old scars. At the same time, she grows concerned with an investigation that seems more focused on punishing the offenders than protecting the victims. Now, as the deceptions—and deaths—keep growing, Daunis must learn what it means to be a strong Anishinaabe kwe (Ojibwe woman) and how far she’ll go for her community, even if it tears apart the only world she’s ever known.


Warrior Girl

Warrior Girl

Author: Sfx Fantasy

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2006-09-12

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 1847286542

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The first book in the sfxfantasy series, set in a world terrorized by dark beasts. Where a group of warriors are endowed with strange powers which they use to defend their fellow human beings. Telepathy and flight are like talking and walking to these warriors.


Warrior Girl

Warrior Girl

Author: Britney Brianne Taylor

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-12-19

Total Pages: 71

ISBN-13: 1105371751

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This is a book meant to inspire, and empower. The book is a symbol of strength for its readers. It is one of survival and perseverance. This book is about being a warrior in your life. Read it and pass it along, and inspire others to be warriors in their lives.


March Forward, Girl

March Forward, Girl

Author: Melba Beals

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1328882128

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A member of the Little Rock Nine shares her memories of growing up in the South under Jim Crow.


Warrior Girl

Warrior Girl

Author: Ivy Cleveland

Publisher:

Published: 2020-09-15

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13:

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The enemy spends his time prowling around like a lion, looking for someone to devour. Even on our best days, life can be hard, thanks to his carefully played schemes. But the truth is, we have a Savior who has already defeated the enemy. He is the one true Warrior King--a king who stands undefeated and holds all the power. He desires for every woman to walk in complete freedom all the days of her life. That's why it's critical for every sister in Christ to put on her armor, fix her hair, reapply her lipstick and prepare for full-on war. In Warrior Girl, author and speaker Ivy Cleveland provides a blueprint for fighting spiritual warfare. With practical application and biblical insight, step by step, Ivy walks readers through a spiritual bootcamp that will prepare them for battle. Throughout her book, Ivy shares personal stories, hilarious anecdotes and heart-to-heart moments--all with a heavy dose of sass--to encourage her fellow female soldiers to sign up for a sisterhood that is committed to waging war on Satan. Along the way, she equips every woman with the tools necessary to unlock her inner Warrior Girl and become the fierce fighter God created her to be.


The Woman Warrior

The Woman Warrior

Author: Maxine Hong Kingston

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2010-09-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0307759334

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identities—immigrant, female, Chinese, American. • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER “A classic, for a reason.” —Celeste Ng, bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts, via Twitter As a girl, Kingston lives in two confounding worlds: the California to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother’s “talk stories.” The fierce and wily women warriors of her mother’s tales clash jarringly with the harsh reality of female oppression out of which they come. Kingston’s sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own. A warrior of words, she forges fractured myths and memories into an incandescent whole, achieving a new understanding of her family’s past and her own present.


Warrior Girl Unearthed

Warrior Girl Unearthed

Author: Angeline Boulley

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2023-05-04

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0861544218

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A Financial Times Best YA Summer Book 2023 #1 New York Times bestselling author Angeline Boulley takes us back into the world of Firekeeper's Daughter in this high-stakes mystery about the power of discovering your stolen history. HONOUR YOUR ROOTS. BREAK THE RULES. UNCOVER THE TRUTH. Perry Firekeeper-Birch has always known who she is — the laid-back twin, the troublemaker, the best fisher on Sugar Island. Whilst her overachieving sister works away at an internship, Perry’s holiday plans mostly involve doing absolutely nothing. But her carefree summer is brought to an abrupt end when she meets ‘Warrior Girl’, a Native American ancestor whose stolen remains are being kept in the archives of a local university. Perry is determined to bring her home, with the help of a small group of friends and allies, including her twin sister and a charming new boy in town with unwavering morals. Old rivalries, sister secrets, and botched heists cannot—will not—stop her from uncovering the mystery before the ancestors and missing women are lost forever.


The Girl Who Became a Warrior

The Girl Who Became a Warrior

Author: L. B. Anne

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12-02

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 9781736268803

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SOME BATTLES BREAK YOU. OTHERS MAKE YOU A WARRIOR.A few weeks have passed since the standoff against the Murk. Thirteen-year-old Sheena Meyer is hopeful that her world is normal again, but it isn't. She hears a cry for help that no one else can and learns: evil doesn't disappear; it finds a hiding place. It knows Sheena's weakness and has set a trap for her. But Sheena has a secret that changes everything.In this fourth installment of the Sheena Meyer series, Sheena learns of the connected gleamers and the mystery surrounding them. Together, they must come against a threat created by the Murk and learn we all have a warrior inside of us. Sometimes it takes a little help from heaven to bring it out. The Girl Who Became a Warrior is the fourth book in L. B. Anne's Christian science fiction series for those who love stories of bravery, self-discovery, compelling characters, and a fight against evil.Buy The Girl Who Became a Warrior to read L. B. Anne's latest adventure today!