Taking it to the mat, by Jake Maddox ; text by Peter Mavrikis
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Taking it to the mat, by Jake Maddox ; text by Peter Mavrikis
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eng
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Intended audience
Ages 9-12
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fiction
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Taking it to the mat
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by Jake Maddox ; text by Peter Mavrikis
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Jake Maddox JV
Summary
Fourteen-year-old Aarash Husayni is starting his freshman year at Freemont Central High School, and even though he has been in the United States for six years he still feels like an outsider and mostly he tries to keep his head down and avoid the bullies; so when his fifteen-year-old cousin Ferhana and her friend Anton persuade him to join the wrestling team it is a big step -- but his chief tormentor is also on the team, and Aarash has a choice: quit the team, or face down the bully
Target audience
pre adolescent
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