Highlighting rugby, the fastest growing sport in America, this book tackles the issue of girls playing full-contact sports.
Maddy and her friends are a small town group determined to form a girls' junior rugby team while they navigate learning both the rules of the game and the rules set out by the school board.
The adults are concerned about the girls' safety and even Maddy worries that she is too small for the rough game.
But the persistence of the diverse group of girls wins the day and the book becomes a celebration of the empowerment and self-esteem young girls get from participating in sports.
About author(s): MIKE LEVITT has played, coached and refereed high-school rugby.
He wrote the curriculum for his school district's grade 11 rugby course, had a newspaper column in the Williams Lake Tribune, has had short stories published in British Columbia Magazine and is the author of the Lorimer Sports Stories novel Rugby Rivals.
Mike works as a mental health clinician with the Lillooet Tribal Council.
He lives in Kamloops, BC.
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Lorimer Children & Teens Rugby rookies, library binding/mike levitt
