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Mighty Moe

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By Rachel Swaby Kit Fox
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
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Description Rachel Swaby and Kit Fox present Mighty Moe, the untold true story of runner Maureen Wilton, whose world recordbreaking marathon time at age 13 was met first with misogyny and controversy, but ultimately with triumph.In 1967, a girl known as Mighty Moe broke the womens world marathon record at a small race in Toronto. This was an era when girls and women were discouraged from the sport and the longest track event at the Olympics for women was 25.6 miles shorter than a marathon. Thirteenyearold Moes worldbeating victory was greeted with chauvinistic disapproval and accusations of cheatingas were many of her achievements in the sport she had excelled at from the age of ten. Within less than two years, the controversy took its toll and Maureen quit runnin...

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55476 words55,476 words
320 pages320 pages
Lexile 950LLexile 950L
Published 2019Published 2019

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Book ISBN:

9780374311605

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