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Roller Girl

Victoria Jamieson
Roller Girl Book PDF

Author : Victoria Jamieson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780698190597

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Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson Pdf

The Newbery Honor Award Winner and New York Times bestseller Roller Girl is a heartwarming graphic novel about friendship and surviving junior high through the power of roller derby—perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier's Smile! For most of her twelve years, Astrid has done everything with her best friend Nicole. But after Astrid falls in love with roller derby and signs up for derby camp, Nicole decides to go to dance camp instead. And so begins the most difficult summer of Astrid's life as she struggles to keep up with the older girls at camp, hang on to the friend she feels slipping away, and cautiously embark on a new friendship. As the end of summer nears and her first roller derby bout (and junior high!) draws closer, Astrid realizes that maybe she is strong enough to handle the bout, a lost friendship, and middle school… in short, strong enough to be a roller girl. In this graphic novel debut that earned a Newbery Honor and five starred reviews, real-life derby girl Victoria Jamieson has created an inspiring coming-of-age story about friendship, perseverance, and girl power!

Roller Derby / Girl Gang

Jamie Kendall
Roller Derby Girl Gang Book PDF

Author : Jamie Kendall
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0764359096

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Roller Derby / Girl Gang by Jamie Kendall Pdf

"In this book, many of the depictions of what a girl gang is are not the most admirable. They are often belligerent, rude, violent, and lewd. But it sure does make for great art and entertainment. However, if you can overlook the vices of the girl gang, you'll find their best aspects to be those shared with a roller derby team: a devil-may-care sense of fun, unassailable confidence, and a formidable sense of camaraderie." This explosive collection features more than 400 roller derby and girl gang-inspired artworks from 52 of today's most kick-ass artists from around the world. With posters, logos, fan art, pinups, and more, Roller Derby / Girl Gang serves as a scrapbook of rough-and-tumble, fun-loving girls banding together to take on the world. Includes a playlist of favorite bad-girl anthems curated by the artists, lists of their all-time favorite girl gangs, and a foreword by Samara Pepperell, a.k.a. Lady Trample.

Derby Girl

Shauna Cross
Derby Girl Book PDF

Author : Shauna Cross
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781429997096

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Derby Girl by Shauna Cross Pdf

Meet Bliss Cavendar, a blue haired, indie-rock loving misfit stuck in the tiny town of Bodeen, Texas. Her pageant-addicted mother expects her to compete for the coveted Miss Blue Bonnet crown, but Bliss would rather feast on roaches than be subjected to such rhinestone tyranny. Bliss' escape? Take up Roller Derby. When she discovers a league in nearby Austin, Bliss embarks on an epic journey full of hilarious tattooed girls, delicious boys in bands, and a few not-so-awesome realities even the most bad-assed derby chick has to learn.

Derby Girl

Jones Sammi
Derby Girl Book PDF

Author : Jones Sammi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0911042970

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Derby Girl by Jones Sammi Pdf

"Roller derby is an odd place to strike a balance in life, but Sammi straps on her skates, adjusts her spandex, tests her center of gravity, and scores points with her no-punches-pulled memoir."--Jacket.

The Derby Daredevils: Kenzie Kickstarts a Team

Kit Rosewater,Sophie Escabasse
The Derby Daredevils Kenzie Kickstarts a Team Book PDF

Author : Kit Rosewater,Sophie Escabasse
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781683358022

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The Derby Daredevils: Kenzie Kickstarts a Team by Kit Rosewater,Sophie Escabasse Pdf

A highly illustrated middle-grade series that celebrates new friendships, first crushes, and getting out of your comfort zone—now in paperback Ever since they can remember, fifth graders Kenzie (aka Kenzilla) and Shelly (aka Bomb Shell) have dreamed of becoming roller derby superstars. When Austin’s city league introduces a brand-new junior league, the dynamic duo celebrates! But they’ll need to try out as a five-person team. Kenzie and Shelly have just one week to convince three other girls that roller derby is the coolest thing on wheels. But Kenzie starts to have second thoughts when Shelly starts acting like everyone’s best friend . . . Isn’t she supposed to be Kenzie’s best friend? And things get really awkward when Shelly recruits Kenzie’s neighbor (and secret crush!) for the team. With lots of humor and an authentic middle-grade voice, book one of this illustrated series follows Kenzie, Shelly, and the rest of the Derby Daredevils as they learn how to fall—and get back up again.

Page by Paige

Laura Lee Gulledge
Page by Paige Book PDF

Author : Laura Lee Gulledge
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781613121511

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Page by Paige by Laura Lee Gulledge Pdf

Paige Turner has just moved to New York with her family, and she's having some trouble adjusting to the big city. In the pages of her sketchbook, she tries to make sense of her new life, including trying out her secret identity: artist. As she makes friends and starts to explore the city, she slowly brings her secret identity out into the open, a process that is equal parts terrifying and rewarding. Laura Lee Gulledge crafts stories and panels with images that are thought-provoking, funny, and emotionally resonant. Teens struggling to find their place can see themselves in Paige's honest, heartfelt story. Praise for Page by Paige “Gulledge's b&w illustrations are simple but well-suited to their subject matter; the work as a whole is a good-natured, optimistic portrait of a young woman evolving toward adulthood.” –Publishers Weekly

Funny Girl

Betsy Bird
Funny Girl Book PDF

Author : Betsy Bird
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780698409446

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Funny Girl is a collection of uproarious stories, rollicking comics, rib-tickling wit, and more, from 25 of today’s funniest female writers for kids. What could be funnier than family? Read stories about Ursula Brown's grandmother driving her on a road trip to disaster, Lisa Brown's little brother getting a Tic-Tac stuck up his nose, and Carmen Agra Deedy's mom setting the bathtub on fire. What could be funnier than friends? Pretty much nothing, as Rita Williams-Garcia shows two besties hatching a bird-brained scheme to get on to a TV talk show, and Deborah Underwood introduces a dynamic dog-and-cat duo teaming up on a pet advice column. What could be funnier than YOU? Tell your future with Mad Libs, discover your Chinese Zodiac sign with Lenore Look, and learn the best tricks of the comedy trade from professional humorists like Adrianne Chalepah and Delaney Yeager. With clever contributions from award-winning and bestselling authors including Cece Bell, Sophie Blackall, Libba Bray, Shannon Hale, Lisa Graff, and Raina Telgemeier, this anthology of funny girls will make you laugh until you cry. Or cry until you laugh. Or maybe you won't cry at all. Either way, you'll definitely laugh. Funny Girl isn’t just an anthology: it’s a cause, a mission, a movement. Girls are funny. Now it’s time for the world to know it.

All's Faire in Middle School

Victoria Jamieson
All s Faire in Middle School Book PDF

Author : Victoria Jamieson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780735229983

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All's Faire in Middle School by Victoria Jamieson Pdf

Calling all Raina Telgemeier fans! The Newbery Honor-winning author of Roller Girl is back with a heartwarming graphic novel about starting middle school, surviving your embarrassing family, and the Renaissance Faire. Eleven-year-old Imogene (Impy) has grown up with two parents working at the Renaissance Faire, and she's eager to begin her own training as a squire. First, though, she'll need to prove her bravery. Luckily Impy has just the quest in mind—she'll go to public school after a life of being homeschooled! But it's not easy to act like a noble knight-in-training in middle school. Impy falls in with a group of girls who seem really nice (until they don't) and starts to be embarrassed of her thrift shop apparel, her family's unusual lifestyle, and their small, messy apartment. Impy has always thought of herself as a heroic knight, but when she does something really mean in order to fit in, she begins to wonder whether she might be more of a dragon after all. As she did in Roller Girl, Victoria Jamieson perfectly—and authentically—captures the bittersweetness of middle school life with humor, warmth, and understanding.

Identity, Belonging, and Community in Men’s Roller Derby

Dawn Fletcher
Identity Belonging and Community in Men s Roller Derby Book PDF

Author : Dawn Fletcher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000063400

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Identity, Belonging, and Community in Men’s Roller Derby by Dawn Fletcher Pdf

Modern roller derby has been theorised as a gendered leisure context, offering women opportunities for empowerment and growth, and enabling them to carve a space for themselves in sport. No longer a women-only sport, roller derby is now played by all genders and has been heralded as a model of inclusivity within sport. Identity, Belonging, and Community in Men’s Roller Derby offers an insight into how men’s roller derby culture is created and maintained, how members forge an identity for themselves and their team, and how they create feelings of belonging and inclusivity. Through in-depth ethnographic study of a specific, localised roller derby community, this book examines how practices of skills capital intersect with different configurations of masculinity in a continual struggle between traditional and inclusive models of sport. An interrogation of the ways a DIY sport can be seen to be achieved, experienced, and understood in everyday practice, this book will appeal to scholars of men, masculinities, and sport. Additionally, the methodological discussions will be of value to ethnographers and researchers who have had to deal with a disruptive presence.

Down and Derby

Alex Cohen,Jennifer Barbee
Down and Derby Book PDF

Author : Alex Cohen,Jennifer Barbee
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781593763725

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Down and Derby by Alex Cohen,Jennifer Barbee Pdf

“Part manifesto, part how-to-guide . . . required reading for anyone who’s searching for new ways to be fearless.” —Carrie Brownstein When most Americans hear the words “roller derby” today, they think of the kitschy sport once popular on weekend television during the seventies and eighties. Originally an endurance competition where skaters traveled the equivalent of a trip between Los Angeles and New York, roller derby gradually evolved into a violent contact sport often involving fake fighting, and a kitschy weekend-television staple during the seventies and eighties. But in recent decades it’s come back strong, with more than 17,000 skaters in more than four hundred leagues around the world, and countless die-hard fans. Down and Derby will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about the sport. Written by veteran skaters as both a history and a how-to, it’s a brassy celebration of every aspect of the sport, from its origins in the late 1800s, to the rules of a modern bout, to the science of picking an alias, to the many ways you can get involved off skates. Informative, entertaining, and executed with the same tough, sassy, DIY attitude—leavened with plenty of humor—that the sport is known for, Down and Derby is a great read for both skaters and spectators.

Roller Derby

Michella M. Marino
Roller Derby Book PDF

Author : Michella M. Marino
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781477323847

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Roller Derby by Michella M. Marino Pdf

Since 1935, roller derby has thrilled fans and skaters with its constant action, hard hits, and edgy attitude. However, though its participants’ athleticism is undeniable, roller derby has never been accepted as a “real” sport. Michella M. Marino, herself a former skater, tackles the history of a sport that has long been a cultural mainstay for one reason both utterly simple and infinitely complex: roller derby has always been coed. Richly illustrated and drawing on oral histories, archival materials, media coverage, and personal experiences, Roller Derby is the first comprehensive history of this cultural phenomenon, one enjoyed by millions yet spurned by mainstream gatekeepers. Amid the social constraints of the mid-twentieth century, roller derby’s emphasis on gender equality attracted male and female athletes alike, producing gender relations and gender politics unlike those of traditional sex-segregated sports. In an enlightening feminist critique, Marino considers how the promotion of pregnancy and motherhood by roller derby management has simultaneously challenged and conformed to social norms. Finally, Marino assesses the sport’s present and future after its resurgence in the 2000s.

Girl Positive

Tatiana Fraser,Caia Hagel
Girl Positive Book PDF

Author : Tatiana Fraser,Caia Hagel
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780345808400

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Girl Positive by Tatiana Fraser,Caia Hagel Pdf

Showcasing the diverse voices of girls across North America, Tatiana Fraser and Caia Hagel draw on the wisdom of young women making positive change in their own lives and communities, to offer tools for families, friends and educators to assist the empowerment of young women. With its engaging and cutting-edge view of the cultural, social, and political issues faced by girls, Girl Positive examines the transforming identities of girls in the world today. Examining topics from social media, sexual violence, hypersexuality and cyberspace identities to girls as world leaders of positive change, Girl Positive offers stories of struggle, victory, and inspiration. Travelling across Canada and the United States from Montreal to New Haven (CT), New Jersey to Toronto, Whitehorse to the Wemindji Cree Nation in northern Quebec, Fraser and Hagel spent time talking and hanging out with school-age girls, college students and young women early in their careers. Interspersed in these narratives is advice and input from adult experts in media, health, race, and gender politics, sexuality, education and leadership. Each chapter also includes a Survival Kit, which offers tips and discussion questions for girls and the adults in their lives. Through Fraser and Hagel's interviews readers will learn how to equip themselves to encourage girls (and boys)--as parents, friends, educators, mentors and activists. Girl Positive illuminates emerging culture and fresh politics, and shows us the future in the making.

San Francisco Bay Area Sports

Rita Liberti,Maureen Smith
San Francisco Bay Area Sports Book PDF

Author : Rita Liberti,Maureen Smith
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781682260203

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San Francisco Bay Area Sports by Rita Liberti,Maureen Smith Pdf

San Francisco Bay Area Sports brings together fifteen essays covering the issues, controversies, and personalities that have emerged as northern Californians recreated and competed over the last 150 years. The area’s diversity, anti-establishment leanings, and unique and beautiful natural surroundings are explored in the context of a dynamic sporting past that includes events broadcast to millions or activities engaged in by just a few. Professional and college events are covered along with lesser-known entities such as Oakland’s public parks, tennis player and Bay Area native Rosie Casals, environmentalism and hiking in Marin County, and the origins of the Gay Games. Taken as a whole, this book clarifies how sport is connected to identities based on sexuality, gender, race, and ethnicity. Just as crucial, the stories here illuminate how sport and recreation can potentially create transgressive spaces, particularity in a place known for its nonconformity.

Dorothy's Derby Chronicles: Woe of Jade Doe

Meghan Dougherty
Dorothy s Derby Chronicles Woe of Jade Doe Book PDF

Author : Meghan Dougherty
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781492601487

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Dorothy's Derby Chronicles: Woe of Jade Doe by Meghan Dougherty Pdf

When times get tough, just keep skating... Ever since Dorothy joined the Slugs & Hisses Derby team, her life has been one adventure after another. Dorothy's onetime enemy Alex is now a friend, while her friend Jade keeps missing practices. Then the skating rink shuts down, and Dorothy's life becomes as jumbled as a derby jam. And that's not to mention the bizarre things happening to anyone who enters the rink (maybe it's haunted?)... Can Dorothy restore order to the new life she's finally settling into, or will her world become a crazy mess she can't skate away from?

Vegas Girl

Katie Kenyhercz
Vegas Girl Book PDF

Author : Katie Kenyhercz
Publisher : Katie Kenyhercz
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Vegas Girl by Katie Kenyhercz Pdf

Melody Hanson was born to be a professional dancer and she’s so close to achieving it. But when her best friend Miranda leaves their intramural hockey team and the dance team captaincies to Mel, it’s an honor. It’s also a ton more responsibility right before she’s set to graduate with her dream job. She can juggle everything for half a season, right? It might have been possible if Miranda’s older brother hadn’t taken over coaching their hockey team, reigniting the major crush Melody’s had on him for as long as she can remember. They’d always been star-crossed, but now those stars are aligning. Following her heart and her dream had always been the same path. Until now. Spencer Evans breathes hockey. Assistant coaching for UNLV’s Aces has been fulfilling, but the head coach spot is opening up, and it’s his. If he can get a little outside experience first. When the Lady Sinners offer him that chance, he can’t say no, especially not when his little sister Miranda begs him to save her team. It’s not ideal, but along with the experience, it also puts him in daily contact with Melody, the girl he’d spent the better part of his teen years secretly in love with. The more he’s with her, the stronger the sparks until a full-out fire blazes between them hot enough to melt the ice. But she’s about to graduate and leave Las Vegas—and him—in the dust. Asking her to stay would mean asking her to give up her dream, but he’s not about to give up on her.