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Description
The book profiles key players on the Houston Comets basketball team and describes their first season in the WNBA. It focuses on the theme of teamwork as the players work together during their inaugural year. The setting is professional women's basketball in the mid-1990s, and the main characters are the star players who helped establish the Comets as a successful franchise.
Quick Summary
This book takes young readers behind the scenes of the Houston Comets' groundbreaking first season in the WNBA, showing how a team of amazing women made basketball history. Kids will cheer as they read about superstar players like Cynthia Cooper and Tina Thompson, discovering how these incredible athletes came together to win the very first WNBA championship. If your kid loves sports stories about real-life heroes and underdogs, they'll devour this book the way readers devour "Matt Christopher" sports biographies. Perfect for kids ages 5 to 8 in kindergarten through third grade who are just starting to read chapter books and love basketball or strong female role models.