Girl Running
Awards: 2018 Junior Library Guild Selection, NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book, Grand Canyon Reader Award, Texas Topaz Nonfiction Title, Maine Chickadee Award nominee, Vermont Red Clover Book Award nominee, Maryland Black-eyed Susan Award nominee, 2019 Golden Kite Honor, LDSPMA 2019 Praiseworthy Award “Pimentel delivers a sharply focused, hard-pounding narrative, and Archer supplies inventive oil and collage artwork worthy of the text.” Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
The inspiring story of the first female to run the Boston Marathon comes to life in stunningly vivid collage illustrations.
Because Bobbi Gibb is a girl, she's not allowed to run on her school's track team. But after school, no one can stop her--and she's free to run endless miles to her heart's content. She is told no yet again when she tries to enter the Boston Marathon in 1966, because the officials claim that it's a man's race and that women are just not capable of running such a long distance. So what does Bobbi do? She bravely sets out to prove the naysayers wrong and show the world just what a girl can do.
