Willy the Scrub

By James McEwan

Subjects: Winning and losing, Wrestling, Sports, fiction, Middle school students, Sportsmanship, Athletes, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction

Description: Willy and his friends have just started 5th grade and they want to be part of the 'in' crowd, the jocks. The fall football season leaves Willy a benchwarmer, or scrub, but he goes out for wrestling in the winter and things begin to change.