The Winning Stroke When an injury forces him out of baseball for the season, Jerry Grayson begins an intensive rehabilitation program at the school's pool, a program that leads to a growing interest in competitive swimm
| Title | : | The Winning Stroke |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.99 (495 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0316142662 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 168 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Genre | : |
Editorial : From Publishers Weekly The American Gold series isn't likely to make many waves with this debut volume, which centers on a sister-brother duo. Cute, strawberry-blond Kirk is the most popular boy in eighth grade and captain of Surfside Middle School's swim team. Readers first meet Kirk as he is asking his 12-year-old sister, Kristy, who is lounging by the family pool with her best friend on a Friday afternoon, if she has started her homework yet. "Don't leave it until the last minute," he advises her. Wyeth (The World of Daughter McGuire) interjects a great many equally unbelievable exchanges into this formulaic story. Kristy joins the school swim team, determined to excel at something and make her parents as proud of her as they are of Kirk. She triumphs, of course, after surviving the requisite setbacks, including swimming headfirst into the pool wall during her first race and dealing with a jealous, conniving teammate. Though both she and Kirk break swimming records at the end of thi
When an injury forces him out of baseball for the season, Jerry Grayson begins an intensive rehabilitation program at the school's pool, a program that leads to a growing interest in competitive swimming.
I look forward to buying another book.. They like numbers, statistics, data. In fact as I read the book I thought this: there should be two movies: “Philomena” and a second titled “Michael.” We experience his struggles with his homosexuality in an era when coming out was often dangerous. I am and experienced LR user and I find this to be an excellent reference for LR5. If it was not written this way, I would be left wondering what was going on in the war. "Winners are not lonely at the top" is a refreshingly honest account of the powerful impact of 'the five star process' developed by Carl Phillips. How much harder and rarer it is to find the same thing done with a cheery spring in its step.
Much of this is due to the writing itself. Glad to have it on our bookshelf.. This is a sexually charged romance about three people in love who yearn to become not just friends, not merely lovers, but an intimately bonded triad. Now that I'm 30 years old, when I s
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