Sue Macy, Author Henry Holt & Company $14.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1942-1
Macy offers an excellent introduction to one of the least explored areas of baseball history (recently popularized in the film A League of Their Own ). Established by Chicago Cubs owner and chewing-gum magnate Phil Wrigley in 1943 as an...
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Sue Macy, Author Polaris $5.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-590-76336-3
More than 100 photos illustrate the past century of women's sports, from the first females on bicycles to Martina Navratilova and Jackie Joyner-Kersee. Ages 10-up. (Jan.)
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Sue Macy. S&S/Aladdin, $17.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4424-8854-0
Drawing from a broad selection of books, periodicals, and interviews, Macy (Wheels of Change) fuses a biography of the first American woman in space with a chronicle of NASA’s space shuttle program during Ride’s career. The author provides a...
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Sue Macy, illus. by Matt Collins, Holiday House, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2163-3
In this rousing picture book, Macy and Collins take readers to the (very) early days of women's basketball through the eyes of Agnes Morley, who offers a play-by-play account of an 1896 game between Stanford and Berkeley—the first ever between two...
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Sue Macy, illus. by Matt Collins. Holiday House, $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8234-3665-1
Macy and Collins, the duo behind 2011’s Basketball Belles, pay lively tribute to another feat of female athleticism: American swimmer Gertrude Ederle’s record-setting 1926 swim across the English Channel: “Two hundred people had tried to swim the...
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Sue Macy, illus. by C.F. Payne. S&S/Wiseman, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4814-0120-3
In the 1940s, Mary Garber entered the male-exclusive field of sports reporting, and Macy (Roller Derby Rivals) dives into describing the challenges she faced—such as her panic when reporting at a college football game and realizing there was no...
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Sue Macy. National Geographic Children’s, $18.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-4263-2697-4
Macy builds on Wheels of Change, which examined the connections between women’s rights and the mobility offered by the bicycle, as she chronicles the history of the automobile and the paths that led women to become motorists. Against a backdrop of...
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Sue Macy, Author, Linda Ellerbee, Foreword by . National Geographic $19.95 (64p) ISBN 978-1-4263-0513-9
This detailed biography of the trailblazing 19th-century journalist incorporates photographs of Bly and her subjects. The extensive text explores the details of a life spent seeking justice, writing about female factory workers and women...
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Sue Macy, Author, Bob Costas, Foreword by National Geographic Society $18.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-7922-6667-9
Arriving in time for the summer events in Athens is Swifter, Higher, Stronger: A Photographic History of the Summer Olympics by Sue Macy. This account of the modern Olympics, beginning in 1896, covers women's entrance into the games, star...
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Sue Macy. National Geographic Children’s, $18.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-4263-3676-8
In this well-researched account, Macy (The Book Rescuer) profiles female athletes in the 1920s who paved the way for future generations of women. Each chapter begins with a spotlight of a single athlete whose story opens up a larger understanding of
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Sue Macy, illus. by Stacy Innerst. S&S/Wiseman, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4814-7220-3
This inspired pairing of two top picture book biographers tells the story of Aaron Lansky, an “all-American boy” (a Star Trek poster decorates his bedroom) who in college became convinced that Yiddish books represented the “portable homeland” of the
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