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2) SumoKitty
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English
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A hungry cat gets a job hunting mice at a sumo training center (heya), but once the mice are gone he continues to stuff himself until he is too fat to chase the mice that have returned--so he decides to train with the sumo wrestlers, and SumoKitty becomes a scourge of mice and an inspiration to the wrestlers.
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Time warp trio series volume 9
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Joe, Fred, and Sam demonstrate some of their favorite professional wrestling moves, including the "Time Warp Trio Blind Ninja Smackdown," when they're transported to ancient Rome and forced to fight as gladiators in the Colosseum.
4) SumoPuppy
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English
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When puppy Chanko-chan is adopted by a sumo heya she is eager to learn how to be her best self among the wrestlers, but unfortunately she gets off to a slow start with SumoKitty.
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Nino (Yuyi Morales) volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"Niño's little sisters get in on the wrestling action"--
Author
Series
Nino (Yuyi Morales) volume 1
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English
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Hispanic Heritage Month - More Titles for Children
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Storytime @ Home: Exercise
Storytime @ Home: Summer Olympics
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Storytime @ Home: Exercise
Storytime @ Home: Summer Olympics
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Lucha Libre champion Niño has no trouble fending off monstrous opponents, but when his little sisters awaken from their naps, he is in for a no-holds-barred wrestling match that will truly test his skills.
8) Dead guy spy
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English
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When fifth-grader Nathan Abercrombie, a half-dead zombie whose body cannot heal itself, is approached by messengers from the Bureau of Useful Misadventures (B.U.M.) and offered the chance for a cure if he will become a spy, he doesn't realize that B.U.M. is not exactly trustworthy.
9) Freakboy
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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Told from three viewpoints, seventeen-year-old Brendan, a wrestler, struggles to come to terms with his place on the transgender spectrum while Vanessa, the girl he loves, and Angel, a transgender acquaintance, try to help.
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English
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"The Agents of S.L.A.M. aren't your average professional wrestlers. They're led by the fearless and famous Bruno Bravado and work for the president of the United States to protect people from all kinds of threats--both on Earth and in space! And they've just been joined by their newest recruit, Katie Jones, a twelve-year-old wrestling vlogger who just might know more about wrestling than the wrestlers themselves. S.L.A.M. will need Katie's knowledge...
11) Takedown
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
Description
Told in separate voices, sixth-graders Mikayla, a wrestler like her brothers, and Lev, part of the Fearsome Threesome, become good wrestling partners and friends, but there can be only one winner at the State competition.
12) Sumo Joe
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Sumo Joe and his friends pretend to be sumo wrestlers, but when his little sister who takes Aikido wants to join them, Sumo Joe must choose between his friends and his sister. Includes author's note about sumo and aikido, and illustrated glossary"--
13) Cover blown!
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Series
Gum Girl volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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When Gabby and her family visit her uncle in Cobel, Mexico, she learns about her Aztec roots, and faces students from the wrestling school of her uncle's rival.
14) Willy the scrub
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Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
Description
Willy and his friends have just started 5th grade and they want to be part of the 'in' crowd, the jocks. The fall football season leaves Willy a benchwarmer, or scrub, but he goes out for wrestling in the winter and things begin to change.
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Family reunions mean lots of hugging, handshaking, and hair tousling. And Russell's relatives? Well, they are more... enthusiastic than most. BIGGER than most. BRAWNIER than most. They're wrestlers! Skinny and scrawny Russell will have to meet, greet, and defeat this clan with some spectacular moves of his own!"--
16) Bump
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English
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Bullying Prevention Month Tweens
Día Booklist (Grades 3-5) 2024
Hispanic Heritage Month - Tweens
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Día Booklist (Grades 3-5) 2024
Hispanic Heritage Month - Tweens
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"MJ knows what it means to hurt. Bruises from gymnastics heal, but big hurts, like her dad not being around anymore, don't go away. Now her mom needs to work two jobs, and MJ doesn't have friends at school to lean on. There is only one thing MJ loves: the world of professional wrestling. She especially idolizes the luchadores and the stories they tell in the ring. When MJ learns that her neighbor, Mr. Arellano, runs a wrestling school, she has a new...
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English
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Hispanic Heritage Month - Children
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Storytime @ Home: Food
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Storytime @ Home: Food
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"Little Lobo, a Mexican American, and Bernabé, his dog, gather tacos, frutas picadas, cuernos, and more and deliver them to los luchadores preparing for Lucha Libre 5000."--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
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"Nikko's mother wants him to stop jumping on his bed, but he's not jumping on his bed, as he tried to convince her. Instead there are luchadors, masked wrestlers, trying to fight him one at a time. In the end, of course, Nikko is the winner: the great and mightly Nikko!"--
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Fourteen-year-old Aarash Husayni is starting his freshman year at Freemont Central High School, and even though he has been in the United States for six years he still feels like an outsider and mostly he tries to keep his head down and avoid the bullies; so when his fifteen-year-old cousin Ferhana and her friend Anton persuade him to join the wrestling team it is a big step--but his chief tormentor is also on the team, and Aarash has a choice: quit...
20) Tumble
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English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2023 - Children
Día Booklist (Grades 3-5) 2023
Hispanic Heritage Month - Tweens
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Día Booklist (Grades 3-5) 2023
Hispanic Heritage Month - Tweens
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Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez reaches out to her estranged biological father--who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador--and the eccentric extended family of wrestlers she has never met, bringing Adela closer to understanding the expansive definition of family.
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