With limited options, Mickey joins the Gladiators team. Preferring to wrestle under the name Mickey, she’s angry when the coach of the Eagles, the team her brothers wrestled with, declares he won’t accept girls, and Kenna admits that she wants to join the drama club instead. Along with best friend Kenna, Mikayla is joining her first traveling wrestling league. Potentially Sensitive Areas: Discrimination This warmhearted, engaging novel by the author of the highly praised The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary explores competition among athletes, how it influences family and friendships, and what happens when one girl wants to break barriers in a sport dominated by boys. But at States, there can only be one winner. Mickey and Lev work hard together, and find a way to become friends. This better not get in the way of his goal. But at the beginning of sixth grade, he’s paired with a new partner-a girl. He’s used to training with his two buddies as the Fearsome Threesome. Lev is determined too–he’s going to make it to the state championship. Some people don’t want a girl on the team. Mikayla is a wrestler when you grow up in a house full of brothers who are die-hard mat heads, it’s in your DNA.
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