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Astrid’s mother takes her and best friend Nicole to see a roller derby bout for their night of “cultural enlightenment”. Nicole (who ironically can skate just fine) thinks it’s rather weird and isn’t impressed, but Astrid is blown away and excited afterward to attend a junior roller derby summer camp. She begs her mother to take her and Nicole to a skating rink later and quickly realizes she’s terrible<\/em> at skating, but isn’t at all discouraged. Things quickly get tough when she goes to camp though- upset that Nicole doesn’t join her (preferring ballet camp instead) and then finding out all the other skaters are older, more experienced. She takes a lot of hard knocks, falls down a ton, gets worn out to exhaustion, gathers many bruises- and doesn’t give up. Bitterly determined to improve. Angry at everything for a while- her friend ditching her, kids at school teasing her, conflict with her mother, etc. She works so<\/em> hard, and is crushed when doesn’t get chosen to play a star position in her first bout. But she improves on her skills, starts finding herself, faces a terribly frightening downhill crash when skating outside, and comes through it all intact. Even gets encouragement from a local adult derby player whom she really admires. As she and Nicole drift further apart- not only because they have different interests but also Nicole is now best friends with a girl Astrid hates- Astrid makes a new friend on the roller derby team. That doesn’t always go smoothly either, though- at one point she gets jealous of her new friend and they stop speaking, she feels like she doesn’t have any friends at all for a while, but then does something very nice to repair their relationship. And when Nicole tries to reach out again with a kind gesture Astrid thanks her, but decides to stick with her new derby friends instead. That rubbed some other reviewers the wrong way, but after seeing what happened earlier between Astrid and Nicole- including the other girl not standing up for her in some social situations, I don’t blame her for her choice. It’s a bit sad she couldn’t keep both friendships going, but sometimes you just have to move on (or don’t make the best decisions in fifth grade).<\/p>\n

I liked this book so much I read all over again after turning the last page. The author herself is on a roller derby team, so that’s why it all felt so authentic (especially about how difficult<\/em> it can be to learn the skills). Oh, and I’m totally with Astrid on the clothes shopping thing: not<\/em> fun. There’s also some really strong points in the story about friendship struggles, kids being mean, betrayals, lying to her mother and sneaking around (and making it right afterwards). So much I could keep on and on about, but really: you should just read this book!<\/p>\n

Borrowed from the public library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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