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"For Sera Wheeler, the Olympics is the reason for everything. It's why she trains thirty hours a week, starves herself to under 100 pounds, and pops Advil like Tic Tacs. For her mother, Charlene, hungry for glory she never had, it's why she rises before dawn to drive Sera to practice in a different state, and why the family scrimps, saves, and fractures. They're why when Sera's best friends reports the gymnastics doctor to the authority who selects...
3) Simone Biles
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Since storming the 2016 Olympics, gymnast Simone Biles keeps pushing the boundaries of her sport. Learn about Biles's gravity-defying moves, what she does outside gymnastics, and why her fans can't wait for the 2020 Games"--
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Can she perform the vault of her life to save her loved ones--and herself. Sixteen-year-old gymnast Elizabeth Arlington doesn't care that her mother is older than the other girls' moms or that she doesn't look anything like her parents. She has too much to worry about like her body changing and how all of a sudden the balance beam is not as easy as it used to be. But when she makes a discovery that throws her entire identity into question, she turns...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Although she's just 4 feet, 11 inches tall, Gabby Douglas made a larger-than-life impact on the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Gabby dominated the gymnastics all-around competition with her flawless execution and amazingly high flips, winning gold by a landslide. In early 2012, this pint-sized powerhouse was ready to quit gymnastics for good, but she kept going. Competing at the Olympics at just sixteen years old, she became the best female gymnast...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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520L
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English
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Dana and the rest of the Raiders gymnastics team believe that hard work and practice are the way to win--so how will they fare against the Superiors, a team with a reputation for dirty play and cheating?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Twenty-year-old American gymnast Shawn Johnson is a four-time Olympic gold and silver medalist; a national- and world-champion athlete. Already a popular role model to all ages, in 2009 she captured the national spotlight again when she won the widely popular Dancing with the Stars. Yet Shawn is no stranger to hard work and adversity. Her loss of the major gymnastics prize everyone expected her to win in Beijing, the all-around Olympic gold medal,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"Simone takes you through the events, challenges, and trials that carried her from an early childhood in foster care to a coveted spot on the 2016 Olympic team" --
Through years of hard work and determination, Biles has relied on her faith and family to stay focused and positive, while having fun competing at the highest level and doing what she loves. In her own words she takes you through the events, challenges, and trials that carried her from...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A biography of the young Romanian gymnast describes some of the ways her energy got her into trouble as a child, how she became involved in gymnastics, and how practice and determination led her to become an Olympic champion.
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
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English
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"A lyrical picture book biography of Simone Biles, international gymnastics champion and Olympic superstar"--
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"When Jen Bricker was born without legs, her shocked biological parents were uncertain they could care for her and gave her up for adoption. In her loving adoptive home, there was just one simple rule: "Never say 'can't.'" And pretty soon there was nothing this small but mighty powerhouse set her sights on that she couldn't conquer, including roller-skating, volleyball, power tumbling, and spinning from silk fabric thirty feet in the air. Everything...
19) Silent journey
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"Scott Schroeder dreams of a day when he and his father can have a home of their own. Following an accident that took his mother's life eight years before, doctors discovered Scott was suddenly deaf. Blessed with being an accomplished gymnast and skilled at signing and reading lips, Scott's biggest challenge is convincing others he is able to do all the same things as those in the hearing world. Picking up on conversations he observes along the way,...
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
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276 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"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...
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