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They Better Call Me Sugar: My Journey from the Hood to the Hardwood
By RODGERS, Sugar
- ISBN
- 9781617759291
- Publisher
- Akashic Black Sheep
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2021 | Middle To High School
Gr 5–8—Rodgers's journey to the WNBA was not an easy road, to say the least. She starts her book with a desire to motivate others and shares her struggle to succeed by discussing her childhood growing up in an overpoliced neighborhood in Virginia. As a child, Rodgers's mother supported her involvement in golf and eventually basketball. The loss of her mother, brother, and father, as well as siblings in jail and frequently moving homes, didn't cultivate an environme...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
