Alondra

By Gina Femia

Book Overview

From award-winning playwright Gina Femia comes a modern, raw coming-of-age story of friendship and romance about a bisexual teen girl and her friends wrestling their way through the summer.

Sixteen-year-old Alonda loves professional wrestling. So when she meets a group of teens with aspirations of wrestling fame in her Coney Island neighborhood, she couldn't be happier. So as the ragtag team works to put on a show to remember, Alonda sheds her old self behind and becomes Alondra--the Fearless One. But with her conflicting feelings for King, the handsome leader of their group, and Lexi, the girl with the beautiful smile, Alonda has to ask herself: can she be as fearless outside of the ring as she is inside it?

An SCBWI Golden Kite Award Finalist

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374388458
• ISBN13: 9780374388454
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.6" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12