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Bump

Matt Wallace

Ages: 9+

Published: 2021

Publisher: Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins Publishers

ISBN: 978-0-06-300798-7

Keywords: Mexican Americans, Lucha Libra, Mexican-style wrestling, wrestling, family life, bullying, courage, mothers and daughters, death, grief

A bullying classmate causes MJ, 12, to abandon gymnastics. Then watching professional wrestling leads her to a wrestling club, but will her mother support her?