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Mia Hamm: Soccer Star
This three-time college All-American has broken a string of records already in her amazing soccer the youngest player ever to play for the U.S. National Team, Female Athlete of the Year in women's soccer for three years in a row, and the highest scorer in the history of women's soccer. Students will be amazed and inspired by this young woman's achievements.
24 pages, Library Binding
First published July 1, 2001
About the author
Rob Kirkpatrick
51 books15 followersROB KIRKPATRICK is the author of 1969: The Year Everything Changed (Skyhorse Publishing), Magic in the Night: The Words and Music of Bruce Springsteen (St. Martin’s Griffin) and Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators: The War-Torn History of an All-Star Shortstop (Bison Books/University of Nebraska Press). He also edited The Quotable Sixties, and his creative writing has been published by Aethlon and Slow Trains.
As an editor for more than a decade, he has published such titles as Mark Oliver Everett’s Things the Grandchildren Should Know, John Hemingway’s Strange Tribe: A Family Memoir, G. Franco and Gwen Romagnolis’ Italy, the Romagnoli Way, Linda Cohn’s Cohn-Head: A No-Holds-Barred Account of Breaking Into the Boys’ Club, Phil Pepe’s The Ballad of Billy and George: The Tempestuous Baseball Marriage of Billy Martin and George Steinbrenner, Vincent Cannato’s The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York, Mark K. Updegrove’s Baptism by Fire: Eight Presidents Who Took Office in Times of Crisis, Alex Storozynski’s The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution, Timothy M. Gay’s Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend, John Pahigian’s The Ultimate Minor League Road Trip and 101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out, Sean Lahman’s The Pro Football Historical Abstract, Mickey Bradley and Dan Gordon’s Haunted Baseball: Ghosts, Curses, Legends, & Eerie Events, and The Devil’s Diaries. He also conceived of and published multivolume reference sets including the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History and the Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures.
Rob received his B.A. from Rutgers University, his M.A. from the State University of New York at New Paltz, and his PhD. from Binghamton University. He is graduate of the Denver Publishing Institute and also spent a summer studying at the FAMU in Prague. He taught writing and literature courses on the college level for four years and currently is a Senior Editor with Thomas Dunne Books. In his “free time,” he enjoys yoga and plays on the Bridgeport Orators Vintage Base Ball team. Rob lives in Rye, New York.
Rob Kirkpatrick is represented by Joy Tutela of the David Black Literary Agency.
Contact Rob at rob@robkirkpatrick.com.
As an editor for more than a decade, he has published such titles as Mark Oliver Everett’s Things the Grandchildren Should Know, John Hemingway’s Strange Tribe: A Family Memoir, G. Franco and Gwen Romagnolis’ Italy, the Romagnoli Way, Linda Cohn’s Cohn-Head: A No-Holds-Barred Account of Breaking Into the Boys’ Club, Phil Pepe’s The Ballad of Billy and George: The Tempestuous Baseball Marriage of Billy Martin and George Steinbrenner, Vincent Cannato’s The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York, Mark K. Updegrove’s Baptism by Fire: Eight Presidents Who Took Office in Times of Crisis, Alex Storozynski’s The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution, Timothy M. Gay’s Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend, John Pahigian’s The Ultimate Minor League Road Trip and 101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out, Sean Lahman’s The Pro Football Historical Abstract, Mickey Bradley and Dan Gordon’s Haunted Baseball: Ghosts, Curses, Legends, & Eerie Events, and The Devil’s Diaries. He also conceived of and published multivolume reference sets including the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History and the Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures.
Rob received his B.A. from Rutgers University, his M.A. from the State University of New York at New Paltz, and his PhD. from Binghamton University. He is graduate of the Denver Publishing Institute and also spent a summer studying at the FAMU in Prague. He taught writing and literature courses on the college level for four years and currently is a Senior Editor with Thomas Dunne Books. In his “free time,” he enjoys yoga and plays on the Bridgeport Orators Vintage Base Ball team. Rob lives in Rye, New York.
Rob Kirkpatrick is represented by Joy Tutela of the David Black Literary Agency.
Contact Rob at rob@robkirkpatrick.com.
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May 10, 2015
When I was younger, I loved playing soccer and I also loved Mia Hamm. I enjoyed reading this book about her because I have always been interested in learning about her hard work and how she got to where she is today. It was also a great way to feel connected to a great sports player and someone who followed their dreams. Even though I am not striving to be a professional soccer player, it was inspiring to read about someone who worked hard and accomplished great things in their life just as I strive to do. There are facts in this story that I was not aware of before and proves a great point of always being able to learn something new when reading.
This would be a good read aloud to introduce students to biographies. Students can be introduced to the idea of reading a story of facts and real life situations about an important person in history, sports, the arts, etc. This story also has a glossary for the teacher to read aloud and discuss with their students. This can also be a good teaching tool for a teacher to introduce to their students of looking for words in the back of a book.
This story would be a good independent reading for students in 1st & 2nd grade who enjoy sports. Students should be introduced to biographies at a young age and if they can find a topic that interests them they can really engross themselves into the story. This also has good elements in the book such as bolded headings, bolded words, and facts outside just the story.
This also introduces new countries and places students may have never been to before or heard of. By reading this story either aloud or independently, students can experience different places. Students can also take their knowledge outside of this book and look to see if they have any more questions about these places and see if there are professional men soccer players who have accomplished such great soccer goals in the same places Mia Haam has.
This would be a good read aloud to introduce students to biographies. Students can be introduced to the idea of reading a story of facts and real life situations about an important person in history, sports, the arts, etc. This story also has a glossary for the teacher to read aloud and discuss with their students. This can also be a good teaching tool for a teacher to introduce to their students of looking for words in the back of a book.
This story would be a good independent reading for students in 1st & 2nd grade who enjoy sports. Students should be introduced to biographies at a young age and if they can find a topic that interests them they can really engross themselves into the story. This also has good elements in the book such as bolded headings, bolded words, and facts outside just the story.
This also introduces new countries and places students may have never been to before or heard of. By reading this story either aloud or independently, students can experience different places. Students can also take their knowledge outside of this book and look to see if they have any more questions about these places and see if there are professional men soccer players who have accomplished such great soccer goals in the same places Mia Haam has.
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