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Author
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Kayla knows she does the best vault of any gymnast on the Starz. Why should she have to practice? When she messes up her vault at the Regional Gymnastics Competition, no one sees it except her best friend, Chandra. Now Kayla has a choice to make. Is keeping her trophy worth losing her best friend?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
After fourteen-year-old Joey experiences her first kiss and learns that her best friend wants to quit competitive gymnastics, she considers giving up her dream of winning gold medals in order to have a normal life, even as her sister and assistant coach urge her to reach a new level.
8) D.W. flips
Author
Pub. Date
[1987]
Description
D.W., a young aardvark, discovers that lots of practice eventually helps her master the new routine in her gymnastics class.
Author
Series
Girls only (GO!) volume 6
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Filled with competition fever, Jenna and her gymnastics teammates lose sight of their goal to work as a unit.
11) I will try
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
A young girl beginning to learn gymnastics is tempted to quit because she cannot spin and jump like her friend Jan, but Jan persuades her to keep trying.
12) McKenna
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Seattle fourth-grader McKenna Brooks, who lives for gymnastics, struggles with school work until Josie, a tutor confined to a wheelchair, helps her with reading comprehension and much more.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"In the Soviet Union in 1973, there is perhaps no greater honor for a young girl than to be chosen to be part of the famed USSR gymnastics program. So when eight-year-old Anya is tapped, her family is thrilled. What is left of her family, that is. Years ago her mother disappeared. Anya's only confidant is her neighbor, an older woman who survived unspeakable horrors during her ten years in a Gulag camp-and who, unbeknownst to Anya, was also her mother's...
14) Only the best
Author
Series
Girls only (GO!) volume 2
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
Jenna has devoted her life to gymnastics and her hard work is beginning to pay off, but then her family receives word that they can adopt a Korean baby boy -- and the adoption date is the same day as Jenna's gymnastics meet.
16) Stick it
Pub. Date
p2006
Description
A fun irreverent comedy that turns the competitive world of gymnastics on its head.
17) Good luck, Ivy
Author
Description
Ivy Ling feels unlucky. Her best friend, Julie Albright, has moved away, her mom is super busy with law school, and Ivy has to go to Chinese school every Saturday. Worst of all, Ivy learns that the annual Ling family reunion is scheduled for the same day as the All-City gymnastics tournament. When Ivy's parents tell her she has to decide which event to attend.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Katie and Eric Knox have dedicated their lives to their fifteen-year-old daughter Devon, a gymnastics prodigy and Olympic hopeful. But when a violent death rocks their close-knit gymnastics community just weeks before an all-important competition, everything the Knoxes have worked so hard for feels suddenly at risk. As rumors swirl among the other parents, revealing hidden plots and allegiances, Katie tries frantically to hold her family together...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Twelve-year-old Sofia Martinez is the best gymnast at Riverside Gymnastics Center, but when a fall from the balance beam (usually her best event) results in a concussion, she finds herself afraid of the beam, and equally afraid to tell anyone about her fear of falling--Sofia needs help before her trauma drives her away from gymnastics forever.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
After McKenna suffers an injury that causes her to worry about her place on the Shooting Star competitive gymnastics team, she tries to help her tutor, Josie, overcome her fear of horseback riding, but as McKenna and Josie become closer friends, one McKenna's teammates gets jealous.
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