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For Pauline, amazing aunt, forever friend,
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Text copyright 2022 by Eve Nadel Catarevas
Illustrations copyright 2022 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.

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Photo credits: Photos courtesy of Jean Kanokogi, (top right) (lower left); David Finch/Getty
Images, (lower right).

Main body text set in Tw Cen MT Std Medium.
Typeface provided by Monotype Typography.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Catarevas, Eve Nadel, 1957 author. | Peluso, Martina, illustrator.
Title: Rena Glickman, queen of judo / By Eve Nadel Catarevas ; Illustrated by Martina Peluso.
Description: Minneapolis, MN : Kar-Ben Publishing, [2022] | Audience: Ages 59 | Audience:
Grades 23 | Summary: Rena Glickman, known professionally as Rusty Kanokogi, was a
poor Jewish girl who grew up to become the preeminent female judo master of her time
Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021014698 (print) | LCCN 2021014699 (ebook) | ISBN 9781728424309 |
ISBN 9781728427973 (paperback) | ISBN 9781728444192 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Kanokogi, Rusty 19352009Juvenile literature. | JudoJuvenile literature. |
Judo for womenJuvenile literature.
Classification: LCC GV1113.K36 C38 2022 (print) | LCC GV1113.K36 (ebook) | DDC
796.815/2dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021014698
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021014699

Manufactured in the United States of America
1-49300-49416-6/4/2021

Eve Nadel Catarevas

Illustrated by Martina Peluso

In 1935, Coney Island was one of the most exciting neighborhoods
in New York City. People came to swim, eat popcorn, gawk at rare
animals, and enjoy thrilling rides. They came to have fun.

Coney Island was where feisty, redheaded Rena Glickman was
born. Renas life wasnt much fun. She lived in an apartment that
was cramped and loud. Not even Shabbat brought quiet.

There was never enough money in the Glickman family.

Renas parents didnt give her much, but they did give her a
nickname, Rustyafter a stray neighborhood dog with red fur.

Her mother made a little money working at a hot dog stand.
Rusty worked there too, peeling potatoes for french fries and
selling cups of ice water after school.

Rena loved her brother, Charly. She wanted to be just like
him. So when Charly lifted weights and did push-ups, so did
Rusty. She became strong. That gave her the confidence to
speak her mind, whether people wanted to hear what she
had to say or not.

The Glickmans neighbors disapproved of Rusty. That girls trouble.
Always got to have her way. So stubborn and bossy and unladylike!
Keep your distance, mothers warned their daughters.

Rusty went looking for friends. In rough neighborhoods like hers
during the 1950s, teenagers sometimes formed street gangs.
Rusty became the leader of a girls gang. The gang members
dressed alike and looked out for one another.

Sometimes they fought with rival gangs, so Rusty put her strength
to use. She was always trying to improve her self-defense skills.

One day, a friend of Charlys showed Rusty a move hed
learned in a judo class at the YMCA. He weighed much
less than Rusty, but before she knew it, hed knocked her
legs out from under her and flipped her like a pancake
onto the floor. THWAP! Rusty sprang to her feet, amazed.
She wanted to learn how to do that.

The next day, Rusty rushed to the YMCA and begged
the judo instructor to let her join his class. He told her
the class was for men only.

But Rusty kept coming back every day until he finally
agreed to let her join.

The YMCA had no womens locker room, so
Rusty changed clothes in the broom closet.

She worked harder than any
of the men, arriving earlier
and staying later.

She finally found a place where she
could be herself, where no one told
her to act more ladylike.

In judo, her toughness was acceptedeven encouraged.

Rusty thought about judo all the time.

She thought about it while she
washed the dishes. She thought
about it at her job as a telephone
operator. She dreamed about it
in her sleep.

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