About this item
"Clever, quippy dialogue and enjoyable first-person voice make the sassy, inner-monologuing Lucy a pleasure of a protagonist ... A sweet, sincere look at the complexities of female friendship between competitive athletes. This book tackles a lot and scores at every turn." - BOOKLIST Seventeen-year-old Lucy "Lucky" Graves is devoted to her championship rugby team, but her dreams of a scholarship are destroyed when she breaks her ankle during an important game. If it doesn't heal properly, Lucy could be benched for the rest of the year. Goodbye pro career, goodbye college, goodbye future. Without rugby, who is she? Now her anxiety and OCD are getting worse, and a past trauma has resurfaced to haunt her. Lucy needs to stop running from her past to discover what it really means to be a team player.
About the Author
Brooke Carter is a Canadian novelist and the author of Another Miserable Love Song, Learning Seventeen (which was commended by the Canadian Children's Book Centre as a Best Book for Teens) , Lucky Break (also a CCBC Best Book for Teens) , The Unbroken Hearts Club (a CCBC Starred Best Book for Teens) , and Double or Nothing (a Junior Library Guild Gold Selection) .
