Author: Megan Sparks
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 162370023X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Annie struggles to fit in when she moves from London to the midwest. Will Roller Derby help?

Author: Megan Sparks
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 162370152X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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When Annie moves from London to small town Illinois, the last thing she expects to do is to join the Roller Derby team.

Author: Megan Sparks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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When Annie moves from London to small town Illinois, she struggles to fit in until she joins the roller derby team.

Author: Megan Sparks
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1623700574
Category : Annie (Fictitious character : Sparks)
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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Annie's roller derby coach will be selecting the best girls for an all-star team, and Annie wants to be one of those chosen, but she is also dealing with a lot of distractions--like her break-up with Tyler and a surprise revelation from one of her teammates.

Author: Megan Sparks
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1623701538
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Annie’s roller derby team is finally on a winning streak. They plan a special Halloween bout with their arch rivals, the High Rollers. But Annie sprains her ankle. Will it heal in time for the bout?

Author: Victoria Jamieson
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141379006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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Astrid has always done everything with her best friend Nicole. So when Astrid falls in love with roller derby and signs up for a summer camp, she's sure Nicole will be right by her side - until Nicole signs up for ballet camp instead, with Astrid's biggest rival. And so begins the hardest summer of Astrid's life, as she struggles to stay on her skates, to learn who she is without Nicole . . . and to find out what it takes to be a strong, tough, awesome roller girl.

Author: Megan Sparks
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1623700248
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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The Liberty Belles are finally winning. But Annie hurts her ankle. Will it heal in time for the bout?

Author: Megan Sparks
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1623700582
Category : Dating (Social customs)
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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Originally published: London: Raintree, 2013.

Author: D. Bordner
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595376754
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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After tightening her laces with shaking hands, Lottie glanced at the other skaters, who had already rolled awkwardly around the big track. Each skater's unsteady movements made a low rumble sound that reverberated throughout the empty Armory. The pounding of skates on the wooden surface made it difficult to hear normal voices. The skaters glided and stretched their legs; up on the big track each person appeared larger than life. Lottie noticed that the guys looked so much bigger and faster than the small group of girls. Maybe, she thought, her father was right. What A League of Their Own is to women's baseball, Roller Babes is to women's professional roller derby. Set in the 1950s, Roller Babes dramatically captures the story of Lottie Karla Zimmerman's inspirational rise from the tenements of the Bronx to her stardom as the Roller Derby queen. Her road is anything but smooth as she tangles with love, loss, and the "bad" girls of the banked track. The widely watched yet underappreciated sport of Roller Derby comes to life in Roller Babes, reminding us not only of a simpler time but also of the power of the human spirit to overcome enormous obstacles.

Author: Alex Cohen
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1593763727
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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“Part manifesto, part how-to-guide . . . required reading for anyone who’s searching for new ways to be fearless.” —Carrie Brownstein When most Americans hear the words “roller derby” today, they think of the kitschy sport once popular on weekend television during the seventies and eighties. Originally an endurance competition where skaters traveled the equivalent of a trip between Los Angeles and New York, roller derby gradually evolved into a violent contact sport often involving fake fighting, and a kitschy weekend-television staple during the seventies and eighties. But in recent decades it’s come back strong, with more than 17,000 skaters in more than four hundred leagues around the world, and countless die-hard fans. Down and Derby will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about the sport. Written by veteran skaters as both a history and a how-to, it’s a brassy celebration of every aspect of the sport, from its origins in the late 1800s, to the rules of a modern bout, to the science of picking an alias, to the many ways you can get involved off skates. Informative, entertaining, and executed with the same tough, sassy, DIY attitude—leavened with plenty of humor—that the sport is known for, Down and Derby is a great read for both skaters and spectators.