Takedown

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A teenage girl compromises her chances at a wrestling scholarship by participating in an illegal but lucrative MMA fight in hopes of raising money for an experimental ALS treatment to help her father. The protagonist is a talented female athlete who has been able to rise above the challenges that life has thrown at her. She learns that she may not be able to fix everything wrong in her life and how to cope with that. There are not a lot of books about young female athletes, let alone books about women in MMA. While it is about wrestling and MMA, it’s not a violent book. The focus is on Rowan and how she tries to help her family while they deal with her father’s illness. Ali Bryan’s debut YA novel was longlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. Her debut adult novel, Roost, won the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction and was selected for One Book Nova Scotia. Her second novel for adults was a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour and has been optioned for TV by Sony Pictures. She has been nominated for numerous other awards as well. Takedown is a deep, emotionally driven tale of sacrifice and the value of family. Show more