![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some people don’t want a girl on the team. Mikayla is a wrestler when you grow up in a house full of brothers who are die-hard mat heads, it's in your DNA. Laura other novels for children include Takedown, selected by Junior Library Guild and PJ Our Way, and the ALA’s Amelia Bloomer Project List, and A Place at the Table, co-written with author/activist Saadia Faruqi, (Clarion, 2020). Kindle 6.99 Rate this book Takedown Laura Shovan 4.25 307 ratings85 reviews You’re only as good as your partner. The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary, Laura’s novel-in-verse for children, won the Cybils Award for poetry, was an NCTE Notable Verse Novel, a Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year, and was included on the ILA-CBC Children’s Choice Reading List, among other honors. Takedown is written by Laura Shovan and published by Wendy Lamb Books. Laura edited Life in Me Like Grass on Fire: Love Poems for the Maryland Writers Association and co-edited Voices Fly: An Anthology of Exercises and Poems from the Maryland State Arts Council Artists-in-Residence Program, for which she is a longtime teacher. Discover what happens when one girl wants to break barriers in a sport dominated by boys in this exciting and thoughtful novel by the author of The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary. Her chapbook, Mountain, Log, Salt and Stone, won the inaugural Harriss Poetry Prize and her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies. Laura Shovan Laura Shovan has over 20 years of experience as an educator, and poet-in-the-schools. ![]()
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