Billie Jean!: How Tennis Star Billie Jean King Changed Women's Sports

A fun and inspiring picture book biography of tennis legend and women's rights activist Billie Jean King.

From award-winning author Mara Rockliff and New York Times-bestselling illustrator Elizabeth Baddeley comes this extraordinary picture book about one little girl who loved sports and grew up to be one of the greatest and best-known tennis players of all time.

Anything Billie Jean did, she did it ALL THE WAY. When she ran, she ran fast. When she played, she played hard. As a top women's tennis player, Billie Jean fought for fairness in women's sports, and when she faced off against Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes, the most famous tennis match in history, she showed the world that men and women--and boys and girls--are equal on and off the court.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Published: 08/20/2019
ISBN: 9780525517795
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 10.80w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2019
Publishers Weekly 07/08/2019
Booklist 06/01/2019 pg. 82
School Library Journal 08/01/2019 pg. 88

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 504298 / Billie Jean! How Tennis Star Billie Jean King Changed Women's Sports
Reading Level: 3.7 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 0.5