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Proud : living my American dream
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Physical Description
xii, 289 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations ; 22 cm
Audience
Ages: 8-12.
Summary
Shares the life story of the Olympic fencer, including how she overcame feeling out of place in her sport and how she became the first American woman to compete in the Olympics wearing a hijab.
Contents
- Growing up
- Work for the win
- Not the sport for me
- A team to call my own
- Ready to roar
- Fencing stronger, climbing higher
- College life
- Surviving the "real world"
- Take up the challenge
- Embrace the pressure
- Never give up
- Dream big
- Build a team
- Follow your passion
- Dreams can come true
- Share your truth
- Olympic glory.
Subjects
- Fencers > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Women fencers > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Women Olympic athletes > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Muslims > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Muslim women > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Hijab (Islamic clothing) > Juvenile literature.
- Fencers.
- Women fencers.
- Women Olympic athletes.
- Muslims.
- Hijab (Islamic clothing).
- Women > Biography.
- African Americans > Biography.
- Muhammad, Ibtihaj, 1985- > Juvenile literature.
- Muhammad, Ibtihaj, 1985-