Mighty Moe: The True Story of a Thirteen-Year-Old Women's Running Revolutionary

by Rachel Swaby and Kit Fox

Book Overview

Rachel Swaby and Kit Fox present Mighty Moe, the untold true story of runner Maureen Wilton, whose world record-breaking 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 women's 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374311609
• ISBN13: 9780374311605
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9