At the Top of Their Game

EACH BOOK CONTAINS:

Lists of career highlights that summarize important information In-depth sidebars exploring interesting details about each athlete’s life, profiling influential pioneers of the athlete’s sport, and providing other information to supplement these compelling biographies Primary-source excerpts from newspapers and magazines that give context to the figure’s life and times, the prevailing social and cultural norms, the state of the game before the profiled figure’s entry, and how the athlete may have introduced innovation or “upped” the game

CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS:

High-concept presentation promotes critical thinking skills and a deeper understanding of the people and the cultural and socioeconomic climate in which they lived

READING LEVEL: 9 / INTEREST LEVEL: 9–12+ TITLE BUY ALL (14 titles) 6-book set Drew Brees: Record-Breaking Quarterback (Gerry Boehme) Lionel Messi: Legendary Soccer Player (Kate Shoup) Mookie Betts: Baseball Record-Breaker (Budd Bailey) Neymar: Superstar Striker (Ruth Bjorklund) Simone Biles: Dominant Gymnast (Bethany Bryan) Stephen Curry: NBA Sharpshooter (Kaitlyn Duling) 8-book set Cam Newton: Trying to Win Them All (Jackie Friedman Stanmyre) Cristiano Ronaldo: World-Beater (Brian Doyle) Danica Patrick: Breaking Speed Barriers (Kate Shoup) Ichiro Suzuki: A League of His Own (Budd Bailey) LeBron James: King of the Court (Rachel Shuster) Richard Sherman: Shutting Down and Speaking Up (Ruth Bjorklund) Ronda Rousey: Conquering New Ground (Kevin Snow) Serena Williams: Setting New Standards (Gerry Boehme)

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Library Binding • 112 pp. • 6” x 9” • Full-Color Photographs • Further Information Section • Glossary • Index • Primary Sources • Sidebars • Websites

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