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"How far will you go to achieve a dream? That's the question a celebrated coach poses to Katie and Eric Knox after he sees their daughter Devon, a gymnastics prodigy and Olympic hopeful, compete. For the Knoxes there are no limits--until a violent death rocks their close-knit gymnastics community and everything they have worked so hard for is suddenly at risk. As rumors swirl among the other parents, Katie tries frantically to hold her family together...
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"The past seven years have been hard on Avery Abrams: After training her entire life to make the Olympic gymnastics team, a disastrous performance ended her athletic career for good. Her best friend and teammate, Jasmine, went on to become an Olympic champion, then committed the ultimate betrayal by marrying their emotionally abusive coach, Dimitri. Now, reeling from a breakup with her football star boyfriend, Avery returns to her Massachusetts hometown,...
3) I will try
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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A young girl beginning to learn gymnastics is tempted to quit because she cannot spin and jump like her friend Jan, but Jan persuades her to keep trying.
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"Soviet Union in 1973, there is perhaps no greater honor for a young girl than to be chosen to be part of the famed USSR gymnastics program. So when eight-year-old Anya is tapped, her family is thrilled. What is left of her family, that is. Years ago her mother disappeared. Anya's only confidant is her neighbor, an older woman who survived unspeakable horrors during her ten years in a Gulag camp--and who, unbeknownst to Anya, was also her mother's...
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Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Kenzie's super strength makes her a super tumbler. But it causes all sorts of problems on the balance beam. When she doesn't control her strength, she falls off or even worse. If she doesn't learn to control her strength soon, all of her teammates will be laughing and saying one thing: don't break the balance beam!
9) Tumbling
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After sacrificing their childhoods, Grace, Leigh, Camille, Wilhelmina, and Monica are competing in the two days of the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials, after which their lives will change forever.
They sacrificed their childhoods to compete in the two days of the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials. Grace lives and breathes gymnastics-- but can never be perfect enough. Leigh has a gymnastics career, a normal high-school life... and a secret that could...
11) The lucky charm
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Stone Arch Books
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[2011]
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English
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Lucy feels lost at gymnastics without her pet rat Ajax.
12) D.W. flips!
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[1987]
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English
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D.W., a young aardvark, discovers that lots of practice eventually helps her master the new routine in her gymnastics class.
13) Victory vault
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Stone Arch Books
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[2011]
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English
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When Kayla misses her vault at a gymnastics meet, nobody sees except for her best friend Chandra--should she admit to making the mistake, or just accept the trophy?
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Baby-sitters little sister volume 29
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1992]
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English
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From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation!
Over and OverKaren thinks gymnastics is gigundo fun. She can walk on the balance beam, and do a perfect forward roll. But most of all Karen wants to be on a special gymnastics team. Only the best kids in her class will be picked. There is just one problem. She cannot turn a cartwheel. What will Karen do? Ann M. Martin...
17) The sleepover
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Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
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[2017]
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English
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With gymnastics class going into a four week break, best friends Ashley Sanchez and Ashlee Taylor plan a sleepover with their new friends Sophi and Prisha--but they have very different ideas about what fun activities to plan for.
19) Aerials and envy
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Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Eighth-grader Tamaya Jackson is captain on her gymnastics team, but she sometimes feels like her coach spends a lot more time with the other gymnasts, and that she is expected to do more with less help--and an interview with the local TV station only makes matters worse when it focuses on her and makes her teammates jealous, so somehow Tamaya and the others must pull it all together because a regional competition is coming up fast.
20) Gymnastics queen
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Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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The Summer Olympics inspires Kylie Jean Carter to take gymnastics lessons, but even better than that is making a new friend, Abby, who is deaf, and starting to learn sign language.
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