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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...
2) Gymnastics
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Pub. Date
2000.
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45 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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English
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Explores every aspect of gymnastics including clothing, warming up, apparatuses, balances, rolls and rolling, headstands and handstands, tumbling, and vaulting.
5) Gymnastics
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1996.
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187 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Discusses the history, competitive events, and some superstars of gymnastics, as well as problems and miscellaneous facts related to the sport.
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2020.
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English
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Peanut just has their own unique way of doing things. Whether it's cartwheeling during basketball practice or cutting their own hair, this little guinea pig puts their own special twist on life. So when Peanut decides to be a rhythmic gymnast, they come up with a routine that they know is absolutely perfect, because it is absolutely, one hundred percent Peanut.
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Jenna has devoted her life to gymnastics and her hard work is beginning to pay off. Not only is she asked to be the new team captain, but she will participate in a meet at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado. Then her family receives word that they can adopt a Korean baby boy-- and the adoption date is the same day as Jenna's gymnastics meet.
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Boxcar children volume 73
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English
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The Aldens try to help a visiting Russian gymnast who is surrounded by mysterious people and events and who seems to have a secret.
Pub. Date
[2012]
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1 videodisc (1 hr., 34 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Meet McKenna Brooks, a determined and confident young gymnast, in this all-new, modern-day adventure. McKenna is on track to make the regional competitive gymnastics team, but off track in school, where she's suddenly struggling to keep up. When her teacher suggests a tutor, she's embarrassed and desperate to keep it a secret from her friends. Then a bad fall at the gym sidetracks her from her favorite sport. Will she recover in time to make the team?...
12) Better than best
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Girls only (GO!) volume 6
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English
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Filled with competition fever, Jenna and her gymnastics teammates lose sight of their goal to work as a unit.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Honest and heartfelt, frank and funny, Aly's story is enhanced with never-before-published photos, excerpts from the personal journals she's kept since childhood that chronicle memorable moments with her teammates, and hard-won advice for readers striving to rise above challenges, learn to love themselves, and make their own dreams come true.
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"Recipient of Sports Illustrated's Inspiration of the Year Award and one of Time's 100 Most Influential People (2018) "Who is going to tell these little girls that what was done to them matters? That they are seen and valued, that they are not alone and they are not unprotected?" Rachael Denhollander's voice was heard around the world when she spoke out to end the most shocking scandal in US gymnastics history. The first victim to publicly accuse...
15) Head over heels
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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,...
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Mia Hernandez's middle school gymnastics team, the Ridgefield Rams, are the defending champions, and this year they have a new coach, one who was once a gymnast for their arch rivals; but a series of increasingly dangerous practical jokes begins to happen to their competitors, and it starts to looks like someone from the Rams is trying to sabotage the competition--Mia suspects Allison, a girl who always wants to finish on top, but she needs to prove...
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"Fifth-grader Claire can do a perfect triple handspring. She can do a giant pirouette on the uneven bars. What she can't do is reading. With a lot of effort, she hides her secret until an alert vice principle suggests she get evaluated for a learning disability. Now Claire has to convince her mother--who's afraid her daughter will be labeled 'stupid'--to let her get tested. And that turns out to be even harder than reading"--
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2024.
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English
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"Maggie Nichols' official memoir is an inspirational tell-all about the abuse she suffered under the USA national gymnastic team and how she managed to redefine herself in the face of adversity. In 2015, Maggie risked everything when she revealed to her coach how USAG doctor Larry Nassar had been sexually abusing the athletes under his care. What ensued was an investigation that would capture the nation, involving multiple faculty members of the gymnastics...
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