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Author
Language
English
Description
Steve Corbett is in jeopardy of losing everything she's sacrificed and worked so hard for - her career, her reputation, her future. Her life. Now she has just two weeks to make a monumental decision, but her fate rides on keeping the truth a secret. Judd Mackie's job is to uncover secrets. He's spent the past few years trailing Stevie, determined to expose her as the spoiled glamour girl he blieves her to be. Then a chance meeting with Stevie offers...
25) Steffi Graf
Author
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brief career biography of the young German woman whose powerful forehand and amazing foot speed make her one of the best women tennis players ever.
26) Seeing Serena
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
'Seeing Serena' is a riveting chronicle of trailblazing tennis champion and cultural icon Serena Williams' turbulent 2019 tour season and a revealing portrait of who she is, both on and off the court.
27) Break point
Series
Publisher
BookShots
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
One point away from winning the French Open, tennis star Kirsten Keller breaks down and flees the court in tears. Keller has been receiving death threats. Terrified and desperate, she hires former Metropolitan police officer Chris Foster to protect her at Wimbledon. As the championship progresses, Keller's tormentor gets ever closer. And the threats become horrifyingly real
29) HP388977
Author
Publisher
Domhan Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
An ordinary man is mysteriously transformed into a tennis champion after a trip to Lima, Peru.
30) Break point
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Price is a reckless man-child on the last leg of his career as a doubles tennis player. When his latest partner drops him, he realizes he's officially burned all of his bridges on the pro circuit. He decides to make one last ditch effort to revive his career, reaching outside of the tennis world and convincing his childhood partner -- his estranged brother Darren, now an apathetic substitute teacher - to team up with him. The mismatched pair,...
31) Maria Sharapova
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest Publishers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
Highlights the life and accomplishments of the Russian tennis player who became the number-one ranked player in the world in 2005.
33) The tennis party
Author
Publisher
Black Swan
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
It was Patrick's idea that they should have the tennis party. After all, he has the perfect setting - the White House, bought out of his bonuses as an investment banker. He hasn't actually told Caroline, his brash and beautiful wife, what the real reason for the party is.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, An Imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Describes the lives and careers and the tennis stars and sisters, discussing their Grand Slam wins, Olympic success, trend-setting, and rivalry.
Author
Publisher
Edge of Sports
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Lottie Dod was a truly extraordinary sports figure who blazed trails of glory in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dod won Wimbledon five times, and did so for the first time in 1887, at the ludicrously young age of fifteen. After she grew bored with competitive tennis, she moved on to and excelled in myriad other sports: she became a leading ice skater and tobogganist, a mountaineer, an endurance bicyclist, a hockey player, a British...
39) Venus Williams
Author
Series
Publisher
Kidhaven Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Serena Williams began playing tennis when she was just a child, and is now an Olympic champion who's won more Grand Slam singles titles than anyone else. Throughout her life she's battled many things, from life-threatening illnesses and sports injuries to sexism and racism in the tennis world. Now she's an icon in sport, fashion and activism, an inspiration to every young person who has dared to dream big. Collect them all! Packed full of incredible...