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Showing posts with label sports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sports. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 1, 2021

The Fastest Woman on Earth by Francesca Cavallo, Luis san Vicente

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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This is a remarkable story of a truly strong female cha...
Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Soccernomics by Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski

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Rating: WARTY! If you look at an older version of this book, which is what I read, you will see this on the cover: "Why England L...
Sunday, May 3, 2020

Jesse Owens by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Anna Katharina Jansen

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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. Jesse Owens was someone deserving of the sobriquet 'le...
Thursday, January 2, 2020

Chi Running by Danny Dreyer, Katherine Dreyer

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Rating: WARTY! I'm not a runner although I do really need to get back to exercising more this year, but I was intrigued by what thi...
Saturday, November 9, 2019

Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson

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Rating: WORTHY! This was a graphic novel, apparently based on personal experience, about a twelve-year old girl going through typical 1...
Friday, July 26, 2019

An Olympic Dream by Reinhardt Kleist

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Rating: WORTHY! This was a sad, sad graphic novel telling the true story (as near as such a rendering can reasonably get to the truth),...
Saturday, July 13, 2019

Saving the Team by Alex Morgan, Full Fathom Five

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Rating: WARTY! If I'd known beforehand that this was a Full Fathom Five product, I would never have picked it off the library shelf...
Friday, May 3, 2019

Real by Takehiko Inoue

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Rating: WARTY! I've not had a lot of success with Manga. Reading a book 'backwards' doesn't come naturally to me(!), b...
Thursday, May 2, 2019

Fast Forward by Adam Skinner

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Rating: WORTHY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This was a fun book, especially for me who isn...
Sunday, October 14, 2018

Pelé the King of Soccer by Eddy Simon, Vincent Brascaglia, Joe Johnson

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Rating: WORTHY! Written by Eddy Simon and translated by Joe Johnson, with illustrations by Vincent Brascaglia, this was an enjoyable gr...
Friday, June 1, 2018

The Hockey Saint by Howard Shapiro

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Rating: WARTY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This is the second in a kind of series or collectio...
Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Sadia by Colleen Nelson

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Rating: WORTHY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. The story is about displaced and immigrant Middle-...
Friday, November 17, 2017

Team Fugee by Dirk McLean

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Rating: WARTY! This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This was a short book aimed at middle grade readers...
Friday, May 26, 2017

Soccerland by Beth Choat

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Rating: WARTY! I got to page 44 of this and gave up because it was so badly written, and so trite and predictable. Middle-grader Flora ...
Friday, February 10, 2017

Keeping Score by Linda Sue Park

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Rating: WARTY! I liked Linda Sue Park's The Kite Fighters which I positively reviewed back in February 2015, but I cannot say the ...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Level The Playing Field by Kristina Rutherford

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Rating: WARTY! Note that this was an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. Note also that this is going to be a lot lon...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

The Secret at Haney Field by RM Clark

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Title: The Secret at Haney Field Author: RM Clark Publisher: MB Publishing Rating: WORTHY! DISCLOSURE: Unlik...