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Item Nr: B 123720 Title: Martina & Chrissie: The Greatest Rivalry in the History of Sports
Grade Lvl: PI Author: Bildner, Phil
Length: 40 Prod/Pub: Candlewick Press
Copyright: 2017 Series:
Book Type: NP Biographee:
Copies: 2 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  A dual biography of tennis greats Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert celebrates the power of equality, respect, and sportsmanship. Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert come from completely different places and play tennis in completely different ways. Chrissie is the all-American girl: practiced, poised, with perfect technique. Martina hails from Czechoslovakia, a Communist country, and her game is ruled by emotion. Everything about them is different, except one thing: they both want to be the best. But as their intense rivalry grows, something else begins to swing into place, and a friendship forms that will outlast all their tennis victories. Narrative nonfiction. Picture book. Sports Biography. Sports rivalries. IL 2-6. AR 3.5. RC 3.3. Lexile 570.

  Subjects:
  204 - BIOGRAPHY
  1727 - BIOGRAPHY--SPORTS
  1180 - BIOGRAPHY--WOMEN
  534 - FRIENDSHIP
  1675 - LEXILE 500-599
  2003 - NARRATIVE
  144 - PICTURE BOOK FOR OLDER READERS
  1007 - SOCIAL STUDIES
  1746 - SPORTSMANSHIP
  1215 - TENNIS
  1269 - WOMEN