A review by shighley
Gold Medal Summer by Donna Freitas

3.0

Maybe a 3 1/2 (and the book uses the old scoring system for gymnastics). I liked the idea of reading this close to the time of the Olympics. It seemed a bit cliched, although I really wish my urban students would look at life more like Joey. It was little hard for me to believe that Joey's parents would never go to her meets until the end, and I wondered if opponents really can heckle you as Sarah and Jennifer do in the book. I appreciate that the author is a former gymnast, and I don't think there are many recent books about gymnastics for the middle grades.