An edition of Althea Gibson: young tennis player (2005)

Althea Gibson

young tennis player

1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
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An edition of Althea Gibson: young tennis player (2005)

Althea Gibson

young tennis player

1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
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Follows the life of the first black woman to win the tennis competition at Wimbledon. One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies -- easily read by children of eight and up -- today's youngster is swept right into history.

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Aladdin Paperbacks
Pages
215

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Table of Contents

Little champ
Althea is a handful
Game of street life
Featherweight champion of 143rd street
Rich folks' game
Sugar hill manners and killer strokes
Tournament tennis and the SPCC
Doctors prescribe
Hard training
Long-range plan
Breakthrough
Biggest disappointment
Girl from harlem and the Queen of England
"I couldn't eat trophies"
Payback for Althea
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Series
Childhood of famous Americans, Childhood of famous Americans series
Genre
Juvenile literature., Biography, Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
796.342/092
Library of Congress
GV994.G53 G67 2005, 2004105710

The Physical Object

Pagination
215 p. :
Number of pages
215

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24199857M
ISBN 10
0689871872
ISBN 13
9780689871870
LCCN
2004105710
OCLC/WorldCat
57436776

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