Rourke-Mooney, Beck
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Birdie must overcome her desire to blend in so she can help new friend Abigail Rose take her family's amateur wrestling promotion in a new, more feminist direction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC ROUJustus, Rob
Summary: After turning his couch-potato father into a wrestling champion, Kid Coach discovers that he left out the most important lesson--the importance of being a good sport.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JUSFemia, Gina
Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Alonda finds friendship, fame, and love on the streets of Coney Island when she befriends a group of teen wrestlers"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FEMBiedrzycki, David
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2022
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Summary: At a party, Jo Beckett finds out that the boys on the wrestling team she manages consider her a "practice girl": good enough to hook up with but not to date. Now Jo feels , ashamed, betrayed, and angry, but refuses to let that label define her. In piecing her life back together, she must face uncomfortable truths about all her relationships-- from her best friend to the boy she likes-- that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LAUMaddox, Jake.
Summary: "Jeff wants to be a good wrestler, but will his bad temper get in the way?"--Unedited summary from book.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MADSmith, Elliott
Summary: Josiah joins a wrestling club, but because he is smaller than the other boys he gets teased--but one of the team members, Pablo, offers to coach him, and shows him a move that takes advantage of Josiah's quickness, and which could be the secret weapon the team needs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SMICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SMIScheidt, Dave
Summary: "The Agents of S.L.A.M. aren't your average professional wrestlers. They're led by the fearless and famous Bruno Bravado and work for the president of the United States to protect people from all kinds of threats--both on Earth and in space! And they've just been joined by their newest recruit, Katie Jones, a twelve-year-old wrestling vlogger who just might know more about wrestling than the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SCHRayo, Alberto
Summary: Tania, called "Thumbelina" because she is really tiny, has worked very hard to be a wrestling champion in the Junior Indie League, and now she and her friend Jorge, "Mouse," are being offered a chance at the pros, appearing in wrestling matches across the country--but her unscrupulous manager, Mr. Mole, wants her to adopt a flashy persona with elaborate moves, and somehow Tania must break free...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC FARShovan, Laura
Summary: Told in separate voices, sixth-graders Mikayla, a wrestler like her brothers, and Lev, part of the Fearsome Threesome, become good wrestling partners and friends, but there can be only one winner at the State competition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SHOPérez, Celia C.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PERMaddox, Jake
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Maddox 2015Raul the Third
Summary: Wrestling star El Toro finds support and motivation from coach Kooky Dooky on a practice day when he feels less than inspired.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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Summary: "Niño's little sisters get in on the wrestling action"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2016
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Summary: Joe, Fred, and Sam demonstrate some of their favorite professional wrestling moves, including the "Time Warp Trio Blind Ninja Smackdown," when they're transported to ancient Rome and forced to fight as gladiators in the Colosseum.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SCICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE SCIGelman, Laurie
Summary: "As a new Mat Mom of the Pioneer Middle School (PMS) Wrestling team, Jen Dixon finds herself thrown in the middle of the "guerrilla war against so-called perfect mothers," armed only with her cutting wit and acerbic sense of humor (New York Times Book Review). Handling a whole host of new challenges, from the dreaded seventh-grade science fair to a school fundraiser (again!), Jen faces the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GELFox, Jennifer
Summary: Every Friday night is Wrestlefest at a family's home, where Dangeous Daddoo takes on the Tag Team Twins in a battle to bedtime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2020
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Summary: "In this punchy and energetic middle grade graphic novel, six artistic misfits take matters into their own hands when their principal cancels all creative extracurricular clubs at their school. When the school principal cancels Sasha's gaming club, she's crushed--but not alone. Turns out theater, cosplay, and choir clubs are canceled too, and tons of kids are left without a space to let their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: Little Lobo, a Mexican American, and Bernab©♭, his dog, gather tacos, frutas picadas, cuernos, and more and deliver them to los luchadores preparing for Lucha Libre 5000.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH RAUMorales, Yuyi.
Summary: Lucha Libre champion Niño has no trouble fending off monstrous opponents, but when his little sisters awaken from their naps, he is in for a no-holds-barred wrestling match that will truly test his skills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2013
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Summary: Meat-eating and vegetarian dinosaurs compete at the wrestling jamboree, demonstrating such styles as sumo, Greco-Roman, and lucha libre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Pub Group 0000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WHECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WHEHicks, Josh
Summary: "Step into the ring at Glorious Wrestling Alliance, the universe's least-professional wrestling company. Collected in colossal full color for the first time, this hilarious love letter to pro wrestling covers identity, anxiety, and leg drops"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 HICBiedrzycki, David
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE SUMRaúl the Third
Summary: Luchadore star El Toro teams up with his fighting partner, La Oink Oink, when a post-match mess at the stadium becomes a bit too intimidating to clean up alone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021