Extreme Snowboarding with Lindsey Jacobellis (A Robbie Reader) (Extreme Sports) (Robbie Readers)

At ten years old, Lindsey Jacobellis first picked up a snowboard after watching her big brother try it out. Soon she was racing the older boys down the slopes and beating them. Today, Lindsey is the world s most successful extreme sports competitor in boardercross a turning, jumping, heart-stopping downhill race on snowboards and the halfpipe a high-flying stylized snowboarding show. On the snow, a driven, fierce athlete emerges from this well-spoken woman with trademark curly blond hair. Her phenomenal talent has taken her from countryside Connecticut to mountains around the world, where she has medaled in a series of X Games, the World Cup, and the Olympics. What a ride!