There's A Girl in My Hammerlock

Name: There's A Girl in My Hammerlock
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Jerry Spinelli
ISBN: 9781436189002

Author: Jerry Spinelli

Narrator: Julie Dretzin

Unabridged: 4 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/10/2008

Categories: Children's Fiction

Synopsis

Last year, Masie Potter was voted most outstanding seventh grade female athlete. She is a super basketball player. But last summer, she developed a crush on classmate Eric Delong. Now her priorities have changed. She will do anything to be near Eric-even join the wrestling team. From the first, Masie gets opposition and antagonism from all sides: friends, classmates, teachers. Soon, her place on the team isn't about Eric any more. It's about determination, discipline, and perseverance. As Masie struggles against opponents on the mat, she must also deal with cruel jeers and taunts in the halls. Can Masie be a champion? Jerry Spinelli has written many popular books for young readers, including Space Station Seventh Grade and Who Put That Hair in My Toothbrush? With a solid talent for creating realistic characters and dialog, he is sure to have listeners cheering for the feisty Masie as she wrestles with some of the tougher issues of peer pressure.

About Jerry Spinelli

Jerry Spinelli is the author of many novels for young readers, including Dead Wednesday; The Warden's Daughter; Stargirl; Love, Stargirl; Milkweed; Crash; Wringer; and Maniac Magee, winner of the Newbery Medal; along with Knots in My Yo-Yo String, the autobiography of his childhood. A graduate of Gettysburg College, he lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, poet and author Eileen Spinelli.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Katie

When Maisie Potter doesn’t make the cheerleading squad, she decides to try something completely different, and tries out for the wrestling team. Though no one tries to stop her from trying out, Maisie is the first girl in her school’s history to join an all-male sport. When she makes the team, sudde......more

Goodreads review by Rena

Just finished this excellent young adult story. Spinelli has done it again -- spun a story I could hardly put down and that pulled all the loose ends together without tying them too tight. Maisie is an athletic type junior high girl. She was Athlete of the Year, playing on the basketball team, but sh......more

Goodreads review by Ilsa carnation pie

This was a really good book, it was certainly a page turner. The story is about a girl named Maisie Potter who joins her school's wrestling team. For a girl to be on the wrestling team is a big deal. Everybody is talking about Maisie and there are a hundred rumors going around about her. But Maisie......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca

For starters, this is one of Spinelli's books that's maybe meant for a little bit more mature of an audience - we've got gross tongue kissing and ear licking (ew!) and a few other details that definitely pushes this into a Middle Grades book. That being said, there are lots of things that make this......more