McKenna

By Mary Casanova

Subjects: People with disabilities, Tutors and tutoring, Family life, fiction, Families, Seattle (wash.), fiction, Middle schools, Gymnastics, Schools, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Gymnastics, fiction, Reading disability, People with disabilities, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Schools, Family life

Description: Ten-year-old McKenna has always been a good student-and great at gymnastics. So when her grades suddenly begin to fall, her teacher suggests a little extra help from a tutor. McKenna is horrified until she meets her tutor, Josie, a super-confident girl who also happens to be in a wheelchair. Josie encourages McKenna to focus on her strengths and work toward her goals one day at a time. But just as McKenna begins to shine in school, she's sidelined with a gymnastics injury--and her confidence unravels. Now she's worried about her grades and earning a spot on the competitive gymnastics team. Can she find a way to believe in herself again?