Cool Careers for Girls in Sports [Paperback]

Ceel Pasternak (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 31, 1999 | Grade Level: 8 and up | Series: Cool Careers for Girls

Features such jobs as golf professional, ski instructor, athletic director, and referee.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 5 Up-Profiles of 10 women who work in the sports field: a golf pro, basketball player, ski and snowboard instructor, sports broadcaster, trainer, sports psychologist, basketball official, entrepreneur, and two athletic directors. Each 10- to 13-page profile has a general description of the job, how the individual began and progressed to her present level, and some mention of overcoming the difficulties of being female in a male-dominated field. Each description includes the salary range of the position and provides a career checklist to help readers determine their suitability for such work. Only two of the women are likely to be familiar to sports fans-Robin Roberts (TV broadcaster) and Tammy Jackson (WNBA basketball player). Some of the black-and-white photos are too dark and a few are grainy. Other graphic elements incorporating photos of sports equipment are rather clever but on a couple of pages they make the superimposed text difficult to read. The final pages suggest ways for readers to get started in a sports position and recommend professional groups to contact, some with Internet addresses. A career book with lots of practical advice.
Kate Kohlbeck, Randall School, Waukesha, WI
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Ceel Pasternak is a noted editor who has created award-winning magazines covering workplace issues. Linda Thornburg is well-recognized for her writing in human resource and career topics for business audiences. Together they bring more than 30 years expertise to this visionary effort to record the work experiences of today's women.

When Ceel Pasternak discovered that today's school girls were experiencing the same peer pressures, body image messages, and the limited role models that she did back when she was age 12, she wanted to do something to help girls. As a freelance editor, she gained the freedom to work on her idea - to provide role models whose stories will encourage girls to explore the world of work and to show them they too can be economically independent. Ceel and her coauthor profile women who love their work and make a good living, the best kind of role models.

Ceel is a former editor of magazines and journals. She has worked in publishing promotion, circulation, and production. She started her career in corporate public relations and has worked in many companies "trying to make a living," including jobs as a yacht broker, a photographer at Lion Country Safari, and an advertising agency account executive.

Linda Thornburg has made her living as a writer, editor, and communications professional for nearly 20 years, a dream she had since age 11. Prior to fulfilling this calling, she worked to put herself through college and graduate school, and supported herself with a variety of jobs. These included cooking in a nursing home; waitressing; hostessing in a night club; working for a Baby Bell company as a service representative; computer operations and dataprocessing; secretary; counter help in several businesses; and research librarian for a historical society. Linda reached her career goal when she became director of communications for a national association of manufacturing companies in the early 1980s.

Today, Linda runs her own writing business. She enjoys her work and her entrepreneurial status more than any job she ever had. Linda specializes in human resource issues. Her clients include business to business publishers, private companies, human resource consultants, and a union. She is fascinated with the changes that have occurred in the working environment for women over the past 30 years. She believes that any girl who has the courage to dream about a profession can make her dreams come true today, as long as she is armed with the right information and believes that she can win in the world of work.

Product Details

• Paperback: 135 pages
• Publisher: Impact Publications (July 31, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570231044
• ISBN-13: 978-1570231049
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,975,417 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, but above a 9 year old's head.., January 17, 2011

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This review is from: Cool Careers for Girls in Sports (Hardcover)

I purchased this for my 10 year-old tomboy cousin who loves sports but isn't a big reader; my goal being, of course, to try and entice her to read by reeling her in with a subject I thought she'd be interested in.

When the book arrived, I thumbed through it and seriously contemplated adding it to my classroom library (high school students grades 9-12) instead. Some of the pages are colored (lavender, off-white), but despite that are pretty bland and uninteresting looking. It definitely was much less captivating than I thought it would be. It DID have a lot of interesting facts in it..

Additionally, even though it is listed as being appropriate for ages 9-12, I think it would be more appropriate for middle schoolers through early high school. It's really more of a reference than a book one would read cover-to-cover.