The Resource The happiest girl in the world : a novel, Alena Dillon
The happiest girl in the world : a novel, Alena Dillon
Resource Information
The item The happiest girl in the world : a novel, Alena Dillon represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.This item is available to borrow from 5 library branches.
Resource Information
The item The happiest girl in the world : a novel, Alena Dillon represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 5 library branches.
- Summary
- "For Sera Wheeler, the Olympics is the reason for everything. It's why she trains thirty hours a week, starves herself to under 100 pounds, and pops Advil like Tic Tacs. For her mother, Charlene, hungry for glory she never had, it's why she rises before dawn to drive Sera to practice in a different state, and why the family scrimps, saves, and fractures. They're why when Sera's best friends reports the gymnastics doctor to the authority who selects the Olympic team, Sera denies what she knows about his treatments, thus preserving favor. Their friendship shatters. But Sera protected her dream-- didn't she? Sera doubles down, taping broken toes, numbing torn muscles, and siphoning her family's resources. Soon she isn't training for the love of gymnastics; she's training to make her disloyalty worthwhile, no matter the cost."--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 358, 12 pages
- Note
- Includes "P.S. insights, interviews & more"
- Isbn
- 9780063019041
- Label
- The happiest girl in the world : a novel
- Title
- The happiest girl in the world
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Alena Dillon
- Subject
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- Fiction
- Gymnastics -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Fiction
- Gymnasts
- Olympic athletes
- Olympic athletes -- Fiction
- Olympics
- Olympics -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Sexual abuse victims
- Sexual abuse victims -- Fiction
- Dysfunctional families
- Sports fiction
- Sports physicians
- Sports physicians -- Fiction
- Women athletes
- Women athletes -- Fiction
- Women gymnasts
- Women gymnasts -- Fiction
- Sports fiction
- Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "For Sera Wheeler, the Olympics is the reason for everything. It's why she trains thirty hours a week, starves herself to under 100 pounds, and pops Advil like Tic Tacs. For her mother, Charlene, hungry for glory she never had, it's why she rises before dawn to drive Sera to practice in a different state, and why the family scrimps, saves, and fractures. They're why when Sera's best friends reports the gymnastics doctor to the authority who selects the Olympic team, Sera denies what she knows about his treatments, thus preserving favor. Their friendship shatters. But Sera protected her dream-- didn't she? Sera doubles down, taping broken toes, numbing torn muscles, and siphoning her family's resources. Soon she isn't training for the love of gymnastics; she's training to make her disloyalty worthwhile, no matter the cost."--Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- TOH
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Dillon, Alena
- Dewey number
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- 813/.6
- [Fic]
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3604.I4618
- LC item number
- H36 2021
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women gymnasts
- Women athletes
- Olympic athletes
- Gymnastics
- Sexual abuse victims
- Olympics
- Sports physicians
- Dysfunctional families
- Olympic athletes
- Dysfunctional families
- Women gymnasts
- Women athletes
- Sports physicians
- Sexual abuse victims
- Gymnasts
- Olympics
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The happiest girl in the world : a novel, Alena Dillon
- Note
- Includes "P.S. insights, interviews & more"
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1224586304
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 358, 12 pages
- Isbn
- 9780063019041
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Label
- The happiest girl in the world : a novel, Alena Dillon
- Note
- Includes "P.S. insights, interviews & more"
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1224586304
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 358, 12 pages
- Isbn
- 9780063019041
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
Subject
- Fiction
- Gymnastics -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Fiction
- Gymnasts
- Olympic athletes
- Olympic athletes -- Fiction
- Olympics
- Olympics -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Sexual abuse victims
- Sexual abuse victims -- Fiction
- Dysfunctional families
- Sports fiction
- Sports physicians
- Sports physicians -- Fiction
- Women athletes
- Women athletes -- Fiction
- Women gymnasts
- Women gymnasts -- Fiction
- Sports fiction
- Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
Genre
Library Locations
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Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial LibraryBorrow it901 G Street NW, Washington, DC, 20001, US38.8986949 -77.0247823
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Petworth LibraryBorrow it4200 Kansas Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20011, US38.9421922 -77.02614299999999
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