Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Delia Barnes and Ernest Wrangham met as teens at Celebration Camp, a church-supported conversion therapy program-the dubious, unscientific, Christian practice meant to change a person's sexuality. After witnessing a devastating tragedy, they escaped in the night, only to take separate roads to their distant homes. They have no idea how each has fared through the years. Delia is a college basketball coach who prides herself on being an empowering...
Author
Publisher
Terrace Books/University of Wisconsin Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
True adventure stories from the Mojave to the Antarctic, revealing one woman's wild affair with the Earth.
For Lucy Jane Bledsoe, wilderness had always been a source of peace. But during one disastrous solo trip in the wintry High Sierra, she came face to face with a crisis: the wilderness no longer felt like home. Recounting Bledsoe's wilderness journeys as she recovers her connection with the wild and discovers the meanings of fear and grace.
These...
Author
Publisher
Three Rooms Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Louisa loves to play basketball, but in 1974, her Portland, Oregon high school only offers a team for boys. An encounter with feminist Gloria Steinem teaches her about Title IX--the law that bans discrimination based on gender--so she asks her principal to start a girls team. Little does she know that she'll soon be viciously targeted by male coaches at her school, lied to by the school board, and fall in love--a couple of times--as she fights for...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
During her exploratory sojourns to Antarctica, Lucy Jane Bledsoe witnessed many amazing sights, such as mummified seals, and picked up more than a few survival tactics; for example, if you should find yourself in danger of falling into a cravasse, you should stretch out your body to avoid dropping farther. Part memoir, part survival tips, part curiosities, Lucy Jane Bledsoe's book lets readers vicariously experience the author's adventures while on...
Author
Publisher
Rare Bird Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When a devastating earthquake cuts the San Francisco Bay Area off from the outside world, Lily travels into the disaster zone to search for her sister, and is joined by a group of feral children and others in their quest for survival.
8) Running wild
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When living in the Alaskan wilderness with her survivalist father becomes intolerable, 12-year-old Willa sets out on a journey of escape with her younger brothers"--
Author
Publisher
The University of Wisconsin Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Lucybelle, an independent and intelligent Arkansas native, leaves New York City for Chicago in the 1950s after being offered a job as the head of the editorial department for a lab, run by the Army Corps of Engineers, that studies Arctic ice cores to reveal "a story of earth's climate... perfectly preserved, for thousands of years." There, she faces an onslaught of problems as a result of her sexual identity and her presence as a woman at a workplace...
10) Hoop girlz
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old River, who is crazy about basketball, is not chosen to play in the tournament set up in the town of Azalea, Oregon, she decides to organize a team of her own and accepts the help of her older brother.
11) Basketball
Author
Series
Publisher
GemmaMedia
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The stress of being a college basketball player alone is tough, but life becomes a whole lot more difficult for BJ when she discovers her long-lost father and learns that two of her teammates may be her half-sisters.
