The Girl Who Ran: Bobbi Gibb, the First Women to Run the Boston Marathon
by Frances Poletti, Susanna Chapman, and Kristina Yee
The first time Bobbi Gibb watches as hundreds of runners stream along the streets... read more
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Sports
- Cultural Experience
- Women / Girls
Year Published 2017
Word Count 850
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 600L
- ATOS Reading Level: 3.7
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 190148, 0.5 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Physical Education
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Boston Marathon--Juvenile literature
- Women runners--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Massachusetts
- Boston
- Marathon races--Juvenile literature
- Gibb, Roberta Louise
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Sports & Recreation
- Women runners
- Gibb, Roberta Louise, 1942---Juvenile literature
- United States
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography
- Marathon running
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Selection, 2018
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2022
Biography Selection, 2017
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