Yu, Bill
Summary: Katie Flanagan was a star striker on her old school's soccer team. But at Peabody, there is no girls' soccer team. The school district allows Katie to try out for the boys' team. Having a girl play on the boys' team causes some conflict. Can Katie overcome these barriers? Includes discussion prompts, a soccer quiz, and fun facts about soccer. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Panet, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 YUChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: Early in the Great War, men left Britain's factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed. "Be the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun," the recruitment posters beckoned. Thousands of women-cooks, maids, shopgirls, and housewives-answered their nation's call. These "munitionettes" worked grueling shifts...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHICopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHIChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in Jennifer Chiaverini's lively and illuminating novel about the "munitionettes" who built bombs in Britain's arsenals during World War I, risking their lives for the war effort and discovering camaraderie and courage on the soccer pitch. Early in the Great War, men left Britains factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023