There's a Girl in My Hammerlock

By Jerry Spinelli

Subjects: Sexism in school sports, Teenage girl wrestlers, Teenage boy/girl relations, Wrestling, fiction, Determination in teenage girls, Wrestling, Teenage girls, Junior high schools, Sex role, Teenage girl athletes, Thirteen-year-old girls, Fiction, Children's fiction, School stories, Juvenile fiction, Schools, Readers (Elementary)

Description: Thirteen-year-old Maisie joins her school's formerly all-male wrestling team and tries to last through the season, despite opposition from other students, her best friend, and her own teammates.