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The race to be myself / Caster Semenya.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Co., [2024]Edition: Young readers edDescription: 223 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781324082729
Uniform titles:
  • Race to be myself (Young readers adaptation)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 796.42/092 B 23
Summary: "Olympian and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally ready to share the vivid and heartbreaking story of how the world came to know her name. Thrust into the spotlight at just eighteen years old after winning the Berlin World Championships in 2009, Semenya's win was quickly overshadowed by criticism and speculation about her body, and she became the center of a still-raging firestorm about how gender plays out in sports, our expectations of female athletes, and the right to compete as you are"--Provided by publisher.
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Book Beverly Middle School 92 SEMENYA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 730382

"Adapted from The race to be myself"--T.p. verso.

School Library Journal starred, November 2024

"Olympian and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally ready to share the vivid and heartbreaking story of how the world came to know her name. Thrust into the spotlight at just eighteen years old after winning the Berlin World Championships in 2009, Semenya's win was quickly overshadowed by criticism and speculation about her body, and she became the center of a still-raging firestorm about how gender plays out in sports, our expectations of female athletes, and the right to compete as you are"--Provided by publisher.

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