Tumbling - Couverture rigide

Carter, Caela

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0451473000 ISBN 13 : 9780451473004

Editeur : Viking Books for Young Readers, 2016

Synopsis

For fans of Make It Or Break It, a novel about the road to Olympics for the world's most elite gymnasts.

Work harder than anyone.
Be the most talented.
Sacrifice everything.
And if you’re lucky, maybe you will go to the Olympics.
 
Grace lives and breathes gymnastics—but no matter how hard she pushes herself, she can never be perfect enough.
 
Leigh, Grace’s best friend, has it all: a gymnastics career, a normal high-school life... and a secret that could ruin everything. 
 
Camille wants to please her mom, wants to please her boyfriend, and most of all, wants to walk away.
 
Wilhelmina was denied her Olympic dream four years ago, and she won’t let anything stop her again. No matter what.
 
Monica is terrified. Nobody believes in her—and why should they?
 
By the end of the two days of the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials, some of these girls will be stars. Some will be going home with nothing. And all will have their lives changed forever.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Caela Carter is an author of books about teens and children. She grew up in Baltimore, MD and Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Caela teaches at-risk kids and teens in alternative education programs. She has an MFA in Writing for Children from The New School in New York. Her previous books include Me, Him, Them and It and My Best Friend, Maybe for teenagers and My Life with the Liars for middle grade readers. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and her puppy.

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As usual, a torrent of crippling fears ran through Leigh’s bones like bolts of lightning as she watched the red flag, stone-faced, waiting for it to turn green.
          I forget my whole routine.
          I’m going to fall on my dismount.
          I’m the Linebacker of Gymnastics: way too big to swing around these bars like a petite nothing, like Grace.
          Focus! she reprimanded herself.
          She felt like her whole life, every Leigh in every day of her past, was lined up behind her. Every missed sleepover. Every potential friend or girlfriend whom she didn’t have time for. Every lie. Every time she chose to be exceptional instead of normal. It was a series of crushing choices that shoved her up to the space where she stood right now, on the blue mat, under the uneven bars, at the Olympic trials. And it would all be pointless if she fell.
          Then the flag turned green, and the storm inside her poofed away. A smile lit up her face, and she threw her hands over her head to salute the judges before popping immediately onto the high bar.
          Her brain turned off. It was only her body on the bars. Through every giant, every release, every transition, she was That Girl. The Other Leigh. The one who was national champion. The one who could fall every day in practice but would never let the bar slip out of her grasp in a meet. The one who smiled even as she held her breath through handstands and pirouettes atop the high bar, whose toes pointed without her telling them to, whose knees would never bend, the one who would never break.
          Ninety seconds later, with a double twisting backward layout, her feet were on the mat, her hands over her head. She was That Girl again.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Viking Books for Young Readers
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0451473000
• ISBN 13: 9780451473004
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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