From the copper canyons of Mexico her swift footsteps echo. Clip clap, clip clap. Experience a 60-mile run with Indigenous athlete Lorena Ramirez, who captured the world’s attention when she won an ultramarathon in Mexico wearing a skirt and rubber sandals — the traditional clothes of the Rarámuri, the light-footed people.

This book is part of the Worlds of Words Global Reading List for 2023/24.

• ISBN: 9781665931427
• Author: Medina, Belen
• Illustrator: Castro, Natalia Rojas
• Published: 2024, Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Themes: athletes, Indigenous, running, Sports
• Descriptors: Americas, Biography - Autobiography- Memoir, Early Years (ages 2-6), Mexico, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9)
• No. of pages: 40