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A Girl Named Dan
By Dandi Daley Mackall
Sleeping Bear Press
www.sleepingbearpress.com
A Girl Named Dan is a beautiful hardback children's book that tells the true story of Dandi Daley, a young girl who enjoyed playing baseball in 1961. It is a suspenseful book filled with lots of American history. Dandi, also called "Dan," is an elementary schoolgirl who excels in baseball, but the boys decide she can't play with them anymore. The author includes definitions of words that she uses in the text. The vocabulary helps to give the reader a flavor of America in the early 1960s, and the author includes some definitions. She also includes a note about Title IX of the Education Amendment, which changed the opportunities for girls and women in education and sports.
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Comments
Title IX changed my life
7:04 PM, Jul. 30, 2009, posted by
katpat23
Without Title IX, I would have never benefited from such great and challenging basketball coaching. I was fortunate to receive a scholarship to play at university, and later went on to captain the all-star university team in England. I now homeschool my 4 children in England and can see the sad state of girls sports without Title IX. Fortunately, we're hanging out our banner in swimming, which coaches girls and boys on an equally high sphere as a town-wide (rather than school-based) endeavour, but I would love my daughter to read a book about the legal framework that enabled Mummy to become such a competitive sportswoman.
