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Author:

Bledsoe, Lucy Jane, author.

Title:

No stopping us now : a novel / Lucy Jane Bledsoe.

Publisher:

Three Rooms Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

248 pages ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Basketball players--Women--Portland--Portland--Fiction.
Women athletes--Portland--Portland--Fiction.
High school athletes--Women--Portland--Portland--Fiction.
Sex discrimination against women--Fiction.
Portland (Or.)--Fiction.
Teenage girls--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Historical fiction.

Summary:

Louisa loves to play basketball, but in 1974, her Portland, Oregon high school only offers a team for boys. An encounter with feminist Gloria Steinem teaches her about Title IX--the law that bans discrimination based on gender--so she asks her principal to start a girls team. Little does she know that she'll soon be viciously targeted by male coaches at her school, lied to by the school board, and fall in love--a couple of times--as she fights for a fair chance to be an athlete. Based on the author's true story, it is a compelling examination of the courage it takes to stand up for what's right.

ISBN:

1953103200
9781953103208

LCCN:

2021947713

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

JCPC145 -- Glidden Public Library (Glidden)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

FPPC224 -- Murphy Helwig Library (Monona)

KOPC446 -- H.J. Nugen Public Library (New London)

JKPC771 -- Polk City Community Library (Polk City)