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1) Tumble
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez reaches out to her estranged biological father--who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador--and the eccentric extended family of wrestlers she has never met, bringing Adela closer to understanding the expansive definition of family."--
4) Pinned
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dealing with family problems, girls, and their own competitive natures, high school seniors Ivan Korske and Bobby Zane face each other in the final match of the New Jersey State Wrestling Championship.
5) Takedown
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Jeff wants to be a good wrestler, but will his bad temper get in the way?"--Unedited summary from book.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When one of the boys on the wrestling team she manages calls her a "practice girl", someone to hook up with but not to date, high-school senior Jo is forced to examine uncomfortable truths about her relationships, from her best friend to the boy she likes, before better understanding her real worth."--
9) SumoKitty
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A hungry cat gets a job hunting mice at a sumo training center (heya), but once the mice are gone he continues to stuff himself until he is too fat to chase the mice that have returned--so he decides to train with the sumo wrestlers, and SumoKitty becomes a scourge of mice and an inspiration to the wrestlers." --
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Rusty, an unathletic daydreaming artist who isonly on his high school wrestling team because he needs the physical education credit, faces the ultimate humiliation when he is scheduled to wrestle a girl in a public match.
11) Takedown
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
©1990.
Language
English
Description
As he is helped by an assistant referee to prepare for a wrestling match with the neighborhood bully, Sean begins to wonder if his mentor could be his long-lost father.
12) Dead guy spy
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When fifth-grader Nathan Abercrombie, a half-dead zombie whose body cannot heal itself, is approached by messengers from the Bureau of Useful Misadventures (B.U.M.) and offered the chance for a cure if he will become a spy, he does not realize that B.U.M. is not exactly trustworthy.
13) SumoPuppy
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When puppy Meiwakuna is adopted by a sumo heya she is eager to learn how to be her best self among the wrestlers, but unfortunately she gets off to a slow start with SumoKitty."--
14) Slamdown Town
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A birthday wish and vintage chewing gum transform eleven-year-old Ollie into wrestler Big Chew, which might win back his older brother's respect but destroy his friendship with best friend Tamiko." --
15) Addicted to her
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After falling obsessively in love, high school wrestler Rafael Montoya must choose between a reckless young woman and responsibilities to his family and future.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Stuck in a small town where no one ever leaves and relegated by his wrestling coach to sit on the bench while his best friend becomes state champion, Ben decides he can't let his last high school wrestling season slip by without challenging his friend and the future.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Ninth-grader Kyle has always been the heavyweight on his junior high school wrestling team, but when a new kid shows up he loses the challenge and finds himself relegated to the B-team--until a girl on the squad suggests he move down a weight class.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Keegan Flannery, feeling responsible for his twin brother's death and his mother's mental illness, believes he must atone by commiting suicide before his sixteenth birthday, but he gains new insights when he joins his school's wrestling team.