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Allie's Basketball Dream

Barbara E. Barber,

Darryl Ligasan (Illustrator)

Why we're reading this: The book, What I Want To Be, is by P. Mignon Hinds and illusrated by Cornelius Van Wright. The book is in…more
[close] The book, What I Want To Be, is by P. Mignon Hinds and illusrated by Cornelius Van Wright. The book is in the fiction department and would go for about a 1st and 2nd grade level. I liked this book because again it addresses the fact that as a girl there are no limitations to what you can be when you grow up. The girl in the story looked up to her father and ranged from the thought of being adress designer to being a professional baseball player. She didn't see gender at all as a way to stop her from her personal interest in being the person she wanted to grow up and be.

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Sep 26, 2013 Kelsey Wilson rated it it was amazing

Allie's Basketball Dream was one of the top books I enjoyed reading. The genre of the book is fiction and I would recommend reading it for a 3rd grade level. It related to me personally because I used to LOVE playing basketball, however around the neighborhood I lived it, it was not the girl thing to do. Like Allie, I was picked on for not starting off as good as the boys were and many of the girls preferred to do other things such as hula hoop. However, she didn't give up. She continued to do w ...more

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