Adapted for young readers! Join two-time Women's World Cup champion Olympic gold medalist and
trailblazing activist Megan Rapinoe in the fight for equality and justice in this middle grade
adaptation of her New York Times bestselling memoir One Life. You know Megan Rapinoe as an
international soccer superstar! She s also a fierce activist boldly speaking out about issues
of equality and justice from LGBTQ rights to the equal pay movement to Black Lives Matter. In
this adaptation for middle school readers of her memoir One Life get to know Megan: from her
childhood in a small California town where she learned to play soccer and how to fight for
social justice through high school college and beyond to 2016 when she became the first
high-profile white athlete to take a knee in support of Colin Kaepernik and also suing the
United States Soccer Federation along with her teammates over gender discrimination. Using
stories from her own life and career Rapinoe discusses the responsibility we have to speak up.
In this edition specifically for young readers she reveals the impact everyone even kids can
have on their communities and how kids can get involved in making the world a better place.
