Takedown
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From the jacket…
Sixteen-year-old star wrestler Rowan Harper’s biggest fan is her father.
But he has ALS, and his symptoms are getting worse. Saving his life will cost more money than the family has, but Rowan finds a solution. Will she risk her chances at a scholarship by competing in a lucrative, but illegal, underground MMA fight?
Takedown is a high-intensity coming-of-age story about family illness and competitive combat, with lots of heart, hope, and headlocks.
Released May 11, 2024
5.25 x 8 paperback
301 pages
ISBN 9781770867406
$16.95 CDN/US
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Praise for Takedown
“A brave and riveting story about a teen wrestler fighting for her future, family and relationship. The writing is pitch perfect, captivating and emotional, giving insight into the intensity of wrestling, being a teen and fighting for family. It’s a page turner with action that will make your heart race!”
– Lorna Schultz Nicholson, author of When You Least Expect It
“Bryan masterfully tempers her main character’s fighting ambition by never pulling punches as Rowan grapples with a boyfriend she knows and a bad boy she’s drawn to, the anger fueling her and the pain overcoming her, and a disease that threatens to undo her father’s life along with every member of her family’s.”
– Paul Coccia, author of I Got You Babe
“With stunning accuracy and endless empathy, Bryan captures the delicate, gritty and complex reality of being both a wrestler and a teenager. Takedown is everything I love in a novel: heartbreaking, intense, romantic and powerful, and the writing is superb. A gut-punch of a novel.”
– Sarah Everett, winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Young People’s Literature for The Probability of Everything
“Visceral and violent yet ultimately hopeful.”
– Kirkus
“A riveting story about bravery, vulnerability, passion, and the lengths one girl will go to for her family.”
– Teach Magazine
