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Author
Series
Hundred Oaks volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
All of Maggie's focus and free time is spent swimming. She's not only striving to earn scholarships―she's training to qualify for the Olympics. It helps that her best friend, Levi, is also on the team, and cheers her on. But Levi's already earned an Olympic tryout, so Maggie feels even more pressure to succeed. And it's not until Maggie's away on a college visit that she realizes how much of the "typical" high school experience she's missed by being...
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 7
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The summer before eighth grade, Alice tries to confront her fears, not the least of which is a fear of deep water.
3) Swim the fly
Author
Series
Swim the fly series volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Matt Gratton and his two best friends, Coop and Sean, always set themselves a summertime goal. This year's? To see a real-live naked girl for the first time--quite a challenge, given that none of the guys has the nerve to even ask a girl out on a date. But catching a girl in the buff starts to look easy compared to Matt's other summertime aspiration: to swim the 100-yard butterfly (the hardest stroke known to God or man) as a way...
4) Forget you
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books/MTV Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After her parents separate, seventeen-year-old Zoey has a car accident she cannot remember and starts asking her high school swim team friends what happened on that night at the beach on the Florida panhandle.
5) Man o' war
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Transgender Visibility
Arab American Heritage Month for Teens
Rainbow Reads 2023: Young Adult
Transgender Visibility
Description
An achingly honest and frequently hilarious coming-of-age novel about an Arab American trans swimmer fighting to keep their head above water in a landlocked Midwestern town. River McIntyre has grown up down the street from Sea Planet, an infamous marine life theme park slowly going out of business in small-town Ohio. When a chance encounter with a happy, healthy queer person on the annual field trip lands River literally in the shark tank, they must...
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