Noon and Herbie are deeply in love and living in a tightly knit African American neighborhood in South Philadelphia during the 1940s. But their marriage remains unconsummated because of a horrible incident in Noon's past, so each seeks comfort elsewhere: Noon in the warm acceptance of the neighborho
Tumbling
β Scribed by Carter, Caela
- Book ID
- 108922783
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780698183360
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Work harder than anyone.
Be the most talented.
Sacrifice everything.
And if you're lucky, maybe you will go to the Olympics.
Grace lives and breathes gymnasticsβbut no matter how hard she pushes herself, she can never be perfect enough.
Leigh, Grace's best friend, has it all: a gymnastics career, a normal high-school life... and a secret that could ruin everything.
Camille wants to please her mom, wants to please her boyfriend, and most of all, wants to walk away.
Wilhemina was denied her Olympic dream four years ago, and she won't let anything stop her again. No matter what.
Monica is terrified. Nobody believes in herβand why should they?
By the end of the two days of the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials, some of these girls will be stars. Some will be going home with nothing. And all will have their lives changed forever.
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