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Deming, Sarah,

Gravity / Sarah Deming. - First edition. - New York : Make Me a World, [2019] - 394 pages; 22 cm.

Sixteen-year-old Gravity Delgado has been breaking records and competitors since she started boxing with a legendary coach at age twelve, and now will reach the Olympics if her home life and romance do not distract her. Brooklyn. Since Gravity "Doomsday" Delgado started working with Coach Thomas, she been breaking records, breaking her competitors, and breaking the walls inside her. Boxiing is taking her places. She makes friends with other boxers: flirtatious Lefty, hard-to-beat D-Minus, artistic Kimani "Monster" Browne, and a host of others. But things with her mother are reaching a tipping point, and Gravity has to look out for her little brother Ty. With a shot at the Olympics on the line, she will have to decide what is worth fighting for. -- adapted from jacket

ISBN: 9780525581031 0525581030 9780525581062 0525581065 9780525581048 0525581049

LCCN: 2018053651

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Determination (Personality trait)--Fiction.
Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
Olympic athletes--Fiction.
Conduct of life--Fiction.
Racially mixed people--Fiction.
Boxing--Fiction.
Family problems--Fiction.
Olympic athletes--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Sports fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.D39525 / Gr 2019

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]