Balance Beam Boss

Balance Beam Boss
Author: Jake Maddox
Publisher: Stone Arch Books
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2019-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1496583256

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.

Jake Maddox Girl: Gymnastics Jitters

Jake Maddox Girl: Gymnastics Jitters
Author: Jake Maddox
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2013-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1434289192

Dana and the rest of the Raiders gymnastics team must learn how to deal with their biggest rivals, the Superiors. When the Superiors don't play fair, the Raiders learn a valuable lesson in sportsmanship.

Jake Maddox Girl: Skating Showdown

Jake Maddox Girl: Skating Showdown
Author: Jake Maddox
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1434265471

Grace is thrilled when her figure skating coach enters her in a local competition. But when she sees another skater practicing, Grace realizes she'll have some difficult competition. She psyches herself out so much that she starts messing up the moves she already knows. Can Grace remember why she loved skating before the skating showdown?

Jake Maddox: Rebound Time

Jake Maddox: Rebound Time
Author: Jake Maddox
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2013
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1434240134

Can Sarit learn to love playing basketball without her dad on the sidelines?

Dancing Solo

Dancing Solo
Author: Jake Maddox
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2014
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1434279308

Sarah must ask for help before the upcoming recital or this dance could be her last.

Chirp

Chirp
Author: Kate Messner
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1547602821

"[A] deftly layered mystery about family, friendship, and the struggle to speak up." - Laurie Halse Anderson, bestselling author of Speak and Shout From acclaimed author Kate Messner comes the powerful story of a young girl with the courage to make her voice heard, set against the backdrop of a summertime mystery. When Mia moves to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, she's recovering from the broken arm she got falling off a balance beam. And packed away in the moving boxes under her clothes and gymnastics trophies is a secret she'd rather forget. Mia's change in scenery brings day camp, new friends, and time with her beloved grandmother. But Gram is convinced someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm. Is it sabotage or is Gram's thinking impaired from the stroke she suffered months ago? Mia and her friends set out to investigate, but can they uncover the truth in time to save Gram's farm? And will that discovery empower Mia to confront the secret she's been hiding--and find the courage she never knew she had? In a compelling story rich with friendship, science, and summer fun, a girl finds her voice while navigating the joys and challenges of growing up.

Gymnastics Comeback

Gymnastics Comeback
Author: Jake Maddox
Publisher: Stone Arch Books
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2020
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1496599187

"Eighth-grader Suzy has joined the high school gymnastics team, but faces pressures from her team, her coach, and her mother when an injury sidelines her."--Provided by publisher.

Soccer Show-Off

Soccer Show-Off
Author: Jake Maddox
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2014
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1434279324

Gina tries to be the star of the soccer team at her new school, but her teammates do not like her showoff moves.

Boss Cupid

Boss Cupid
Author: Thom Gunn
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0374706050

A great poet's freshest, most provocative book. He dreams at the center of a closed system, Like the prison system, or a system of love, Where folktale, recipe, and household custom Refer back to the maze that they are of. --from "A System: PCP, or Angel Dust" Taste and appetite are contraposed in Boss Cupid, the twelfth book of poems by the quintessential San Francisco poet, who is also the quintessential craftsman and quintessentially a love poet, though not of quintessential love.Variations on how we are ruled by our desires, these poems make a startling and eloquent gloss on wanton want, moving freely from the story of King David and Bathsheba to Arthur Rimbaud's diet to the tastes of Jeffrey Dahmer. As warm and intelligent as it is ribald and cunning, this collection of Thom Gunn's is his richest yet.