Team USA starts their Women’s World Cup quest today, so let’s celebrate with these kids’ books about Megan Rapinoe—picture books, chapter books, and middle-grade titles that not only highlight her path to soccer superstardom, but that also mention her lesbian identity and activism.
Books are roughly in target age order, with a picture book, an early chapter book, four later chapter books, and three middle-grade titles. The ones that offer the most about Rapinoe’s coming out and LGBTQ activism are:
- Megan Rapinoe (Little People, Big Dreams);
- Megan Rapinoe (Sports All-Stars)
- On the Field with…Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan, Carli Lloyd, and Mallory Pugh;
- Who Is Megan Rapinoe?;
- Megan Rapinoe (World Soccer Legends);
- and of course the young readers’ (middle-grade) edition of her autobiography, One Life.
The other three mention that she is gay and note her activism, but go into less detail about these aspects of her life.
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