Gravity

By Sarah Deming

A young boxer must balance Olympic dreams with family struggles and forbidden romance.

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400 pages

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Gravity Delgado, a rising boxing star, trains under a legendary coach in Brooklyn, aiming for the Olympics. But as her home life unravels and a forbidden romance with a fellow boxer heats up, Gravity must decide what truly matters. Can she keep her focus in the ring while protecting her little brother and navigating her mother's turmoil? With everything on the line, Gravity faces the ultimate fight: the one for her future.

From the publisher

A. S. King meets Chris Crutcher in boxing journalist Sarah Deming’s YA novel about a young female boxer who learns to fight for what she wants. Gravity Doomsday Delgado is good at breaking things. Maybe she learned it from her broken home. But since she started boxing with a legendary coach at a gym in Brooklyn, Gravity is finding her talent for breaking things has an upside. Lately, she’s been breaking records, breaking her competitors, and breaking down the walls inside her. Boxing is taking her places, and if she just stays focused, she knows she’ll have a shot at the Olympics. Life outside the ring is heating up, too. Suddenly she’s flirting (and more) with a cute boxer at her gym–much to her coach’s disapproval. Meanwhile, things at home with Gravity’s mom are reaching a tipping point, and Gravity has to look out for her little brother, Ty. With Olympic dreams, Gravity will have to decide what is worth fighting for.

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