Take Back the Game

Take Back the GameBy: Linda Flanagan "A really brilliant book" Malcolm Gladwell "So important" Glennon Doyle Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards 2022 A close look at how big money and high stakes have transformed youth sports, turning once healthy, fun activities for kids into all consuming endeavorsputting stress on children and families alike Some 75% of American families want their kids to play sports. Athletics are training grounds for character,

Charlie does NOT like to choose

so their plan to build sandcastles is put on hold

The spirited Ondine

and inside

and written by Meg LeFauve

has left her for Paris

First comes the circle

But the origins of this stereotype can be found in the sometimes-eccentric real life men and women who challenged our view of the world and broke new scientific frontiers

By: Laila Lalami     A New York Times Editors' Choice • Finalist for the California Book Award • Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • Best Book of the Year: Time

a young gravedigger

and his friend Livia

and even wearing jaguar skins