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Lucky Break

by Brooke Carter

Identity, injury, and the meaning of teamwork

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    Praise from Booklist

    Booklist praises the dialogue, protagonist, and portrayal of female friendship between competitive athletes.

AlbakiReads Editorial

Identity, injury, and the meaning of teamwork

Seventeen-year-old Lucy Graves has built her future around rugby: she plays on a championship team and hopes for a scholarship. An ankle injury threatens both ambitions, while worsening anxiety, OCD, and resurfacing trauma complicate her recovery. The sporting setback also raises a question about identity beyond competition. Lucy’s path toward becoming a team player involves confronting her past, linking the book’s focus on athletic ambition with female friendship and personal wellbeing. The publisher describes it as a short, accessible novel for teen readers building reading skills.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teen readers interested in rugby and other competitive team sports
  • Readers looking for young adult fiction about friendship among athletes
  • Teen readers building reading skills who want a short novel

Themes

Sports and ambitionFemale friendshipIdentity beyond athletic achievementAnxiety, OCD, and trauma

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Book overview

"Clever, quippy dialogue and enjoyable first-person voice make the sassy, inner-monologuing Lucy a pleasure of a protagonist...A sweet, sincere look at the complexities of female friendship between competitive athletes. This book tackles a lot and scores at every turn." --Booklist

Seventeen-year-old Lucy "Lucky" Graves is devoted to her championship rugby team, but her dreams of a scholarship are destroyed when she breaks her ankle during an important game. If it doesn't heal properly, Lucy could be benched for the rest of the year. Goodbye pro career, goodbye college, goodbye future. Without rugby, who is she? Now her anxiety and OCD are getting worse, and a past trauma has resurfaced to haunt her. Lucy needs to stop running from her past to discover what it really means to be a team player.

This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for teen readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don't like to read! The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.

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