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Bring history home with you and meet some of the world's greatest
game changers! Get inspired by the true story of the most
award-winning American gymnast. This biography series is for kids
who loved Who Was? and are ready for the next level. In August
2016, American gymnast Simone Biles won four Olympic gold medals!
Her irresistible smile, fierce determination, and unbeatable
strength have made her a favorite around the world. Find out how
the girl who taught herself to flip on her backyard trampoline
blazed a trail in gymnastics. Trailblazers is a biography series
that celebrates the lives of amazing pioneers, past and present,
from all over the world. Get inspired by more Trailblazers: Neil
Armstrong, Jackie Robinson, Jane Goodall, Harriet Tubman, Albert
Einstein, Beyonce, and Simone Biles. What kind of trail will you
blaze?
'Vividly portrays the human face of young women on the margins of
society, women who defy being statistics, who have their own
stories and loves to tell' Sophie Ward WINNER OF THE PORTICO PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE OCKHAM AWARDS Leeds in the 1970s is a place
fraught with danger for young women like Jude, for her best friend
Nel and Janice across the road. Jude flirts with the wrong kind of
people, gets drunk too often, ends up on wild hitch-hiking jaunts
up and down the country. Until now it has all been fun, a way to
let off steam when the relationship she's having with a married
woman doesn't work out. Jude doesn't pay much attention to the
news: to the young women who have been going missing, to the young
women who haven't been returning home, to the dangers out there.
That is until she's offered a lift by a couple in a grey car, a
couple who have been stalking the roads, looking for someone
exactly like her.
'Vividly portrays the human face of young women on the margins of
society, women who defy being statistics, who have their own
stories and loves to tell' Sophie Ward WINNER OF THE PORTICO PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE OCKHAM AWARDS It is 1973 and Jude - known to her
friends as Toto - has just graduated from art school and moves into
a house in a run-down part of Leeds. Jude is a chaotic wild child
who flirts with the wrong kind of people, drinks too much and gets
stoned too often. Never happy to stay in one place for very long,
her restlessness takes her on hitchhiking jaunts up and down the
country. Her best friend, Nel, is the only steady influence Jude
has but Nel's life isn't as perfect as it seems. Reports of attacks
on women punctuate the news and Jude takes off again, suffocated by
an affair she has been having with a married woman. But what she
doesn't realise is that the violence is moving ever closer to home:
there is Janice across the road who lives in fear of being beaten
up again by her pimp and Nel, whose perfect life is coming undone
at her boyfriend's hands. At the same time infamous murderers, Fred
and Rosemary West, are stalking the country, on the lookout for
girls like Jude.
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