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Gr 6 Up—Fencer and Olympic medalist Muhammad pens an eminently readable account of her childhood through her win at the 2016 Rio Olympics in this must-have memoir. Opening with an all-too familiar scene, she recalls how a substitute teacher refused to properly pronounce her name, an episode that the Olympian uses to elucidate her motivations behind writing this text: "I wanted to chronicle my quest to challenge society's limited perceptions of what a Muslim woman, a black woman, or a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Muhammad details her journey from discovering fencing in a New Jersey high school to the 2016 Olympics, where she was the first Americ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More