The Girl Who Ran: Bobbi Gibb, the First Women to Run the Boston Marathon
by Frances Poletti, Susanna Chapman, and Kristina Yee
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- PK-4
- 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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