Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.7
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
28144
Points per Word
0.000142
Page Count
146
Points per Page
0.027397
Description
This book profiles twelve women athletes of the twentieth century, including Wilma Rudolph, Babe Didrickson Zaharias, and others, and describes how they overcame gender and, sometimes, race discrimination in demonstrating their extraordinary skills.