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Tag: Athletes

September 22, 2021 by Amanda MacGregor

Opportunities Instead of Opponents: Exploring Competition in New Middle-Grade Series, a guest post by Mary Amato

With this new series, I am hoping that Albert’s willingness to look directly at his own challenges and respond with positivity will resonate with my readers and inspire them to do the same.

July 29, 2021 by Amanda MacGregor

A Case for More Girls’ Sports Teams in YA, a guest post by Emma Kress

I think for most teens, romantic relationships aren’t the defining relationships of their teen years—friendships are. And friendships can be so much more complex and intense when we place them inside the pressure cooker of a competitive and grueling sport.

March 5, 2019 by Amanda MacGregor

Book Review: Heroine by Mindy McGinnis

This powerful, harrowing, and compassionate story humanizes addiction and will challenge readers to rethink what they may believe about addicts.

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Book Review: LGBTQ+ Athletes Claim the Field: Striving for Equality by Kirstin Cronn-Mills and Alex Jackson Nelson

August 9, 2016 by Amanda MacGregor

Publisher’s description In 2015, the world watched as soccer star Abby Wambach kissed her wife after the US women’s World Cup victory. Milwaukee Brewers’ minor league first baseman David Denson came out as gay. And Caitlyn (born Bruce) Jenner, an Olympic decathlete, came out as transgender. It hasn’t always been this way. Many great athletes […]

Book Review: Jerkbait by Mia Siegert

April 26, 2016 by Amanda MacGregor

Publisher’s description Even though they’re identical, Tristan isn’t close to his twin Robbie at all—until Robbie tries to kill himself. Forced to share a room to prevent Robbie from hurting himself, the brothers begin to feel the weight of each other’s lives on the ice, and off. Tristan starts seeing his twin not as a […]

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