Read-alikes and related books

Books like She Persisted: Simone Biles

Across Dance, Girls & Women, African American & Black, and People & Places — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as She Persisted: Simone Biles by Kekla Magoon.

Dance Girls & Women African American & Black People & Places Performing Arts United States Juvenile Nonfiction

Top related books to She Persisted: Simone Biles

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of She Persisted: Simone Biles.

Sugar Plum Ballerinas: Dancing Diva

Whoopi Goldberg

Themes: Dance • Girls & Women • African American & Black

Becoming a Ballerina: the Story of Michaela Mabinty Deprince

Laura Obuobi

Themes: Dance • Girls & Women • African American & Black

On the Line: My Story of Becoming the First African American Rockette

Jennifer Jones

Themes: Dance • Girls & Women • African American & Black

Ready to Fly How Sylvia Townsend Became the Bookmobile Ballerina

Lea Lyon

Themes: Dance • Girls & Women • African American & Black

Misty Copeland: Ballet Star I Can Read Level 1

Sarah Howden

Themes: Dance • Girls & Women • African American & Black

Dancer

Lorri Hewett

Themes: Dance • Girls & Women • African American & Black

Black Ballerinas My Journey to Our Legacy

Misty Copeland

Themes: Dance • African American & Black • People & Places

Zuri Ray Tries Ballet

Tami Charles

Themes: Dance • African American & Black • People & Places

Life in Motion An Unlikely Ballerina Young Readers Edition

Misty Copeland

Themes: Dance • Girls & Women • African American & Black

#10

Grown

Tiffany D. Jackson

Themes: Girls & Women • African American & Black • People & Places

#11

The Amazing Martika

Martika Daniels

Themes: Girls & Women • African American & Black • People & Places

#12

Solo

Kwame Alexander

Themes: Girls & Women • African American & Black • People & Places

#13

My Block Looks Like

Janelle Harper

Themes: Dance • African American & Black • People & Places

#14

I’ll Be the One

Lyla Lee

Themes: Dance • Girls & Women • People & Places

#15

Daphne Definitely Doesn’t Do Dances

Tami Charles

Themes: Dance • African American & Black • People & Places

#16

Dancing in the Wings

Debbie Allen

Themes: Dance • African American & Black • People & Places

#17

Nutcracker Twinkle Toes

Karen Katz

Themes: Dance • Girls & Women • People & Places

#18

Turning

Joy L. Smith

Themes: Dance • African American & Black • People & Places

#19

Charlotte and the Nutcracker The True Story of a Girl Who Made Ballet History

Charlotte Nebres

Themes: Dance • African American & Black • People & Places

#20

Jingle Dancer

Cynthia Leitich Smith

Themes: Dance • Girls & Women • People & Places

#21

Red Dancing Shoes

Denise Lewis Patrick

Themes: Dance • African American & Black • People & Places

#22

Juba! A Novel

Walter Dean Myers

Themes: Dance • African American & Black • People & Places

#23

Why We Dance A Story of Hope and Healing

Deidre Havrelock

Themes: Dance • Girls & Women • People & Places

#24

Stompin’ at the Savoy

Bebe Moore Campbell

Themes: Dance • African American & Black • People & Places

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Dance, Girls & Women, African American & Black — the same threads that run through She Persisted: Simone Biles by Kekla Magoon. Among the authors featured: Whoopi Goldberg, Laura Obuobi, Jennifer Jones, Lea Lyon, and others.