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Set against a backdrop of social change during the 1970s, State is
an important, compelling, and entertaining first-person account of
what it was like to live through both traditional gender
discrimination in sports and the joy of the very first days of
equality—or at least the closest that one high school girls’
basketball team ever came to it. In 1975, freshman Melissa
Isaacson—along with the other girls who’d spent summers with
their noses pressed against the fences of Little League ball
fields, unable to play—entered Niles West High School in suburban
Chicago with one goal: make a team, any team. For “Missy,” that
team turned out to be basketball. Title IX had passed just three
years earlier, prohibiting gender discrimination in education
programs or activities, including athletics. As a result, states
like Illinois began implementing varsity competition—and state
tournaments—for girls’ high school sports. At the time, Missy
and her teammates didn’t really understand the legislation. All
they knew was they finally had opportunities—to play, to learn,
to sweat, to lose, to win—and an identity: They were athletes.
They were a team. And in 1979, they became state champions. With
the intimate insights of the girl who lived it, the pacing of a
born storyteller, and the painstaking reporting of a veteran sports
journalist, Isaacson chronicles one high school team’s journey to
the state championship. In doing so, Isaacson shows us how a group
of “tomboy” misfits found themselves and each other, and how
basketball rescued them from their collective frustrations and
troubled homes, and forever altered the course of their lives.
Supplemental educator materials are available from the publisher.
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