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Ali Bryan - Takedown, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Takedown

Av Ali Bryan

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Beskrivning
“Sports fans and reluctant readers alike will enjoy the detailed, fast-paced wrestling matches and blow-by-blow MMA fight scenes. … Visceral and violent yet ultimately hopeful.” — Kirkus ReviewsSixteen-year-old star wrestler Rowan Harper’s biggest fan is her father.But he has ALS, and his symptoms are getting worse. Saving his life will cost more money than the family has, but Rowan finds a solution. Will she risk her chances at a scholarship by competing in a lucrative, but illegal, underground MMA fight?Takedown is a high-intensity coming-of-age story about family illness and competitive combat, with lots of heart, hope, and headlocks.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-05-11
  • Mått: 145 x 211 x 25 mm
  • Vikt: 295 g
  • Ålder: 12-15
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Läsålder: 12-15
  • Antal sidor: 312
  • Förlag: Cormorant Books,Canada
  • ISBN: 9781770867406
  • Utmärkelser: Nominated for Forest of Reading – White Pine 2025 (Canada)
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Ali Bryan is an award-winning writer. Her debut YA novel, The Hill, was longlisted for the 2021 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. She is also a Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards Emerging Artist recipient. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, she currently lives on Treaty 7 Territory, in Calgary, Alberta, where she has a wrestling room in her garage and regularly gets choked out by her family.

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“In Takedown, Bryan tells the story of a rising high-school athlete struggling to balance her love of her sport and her family's struggles in a novel exploring responsibility, coming of age, sportsmanship, and mental health.”

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