Wrestling Sturbridge
by Rich Wallace
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Stuck in a small town where no one ever leaves and relegated by his wrestling coach to sit on the bench while his best friend becomes state champion, Ben decides he can't let his last high school wrestling season slip by without challenging his friend and the future.Tags
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The finest young adult novel I've ever read (and there's been some mighty good competition in the past five years or so, the field attracting talented people like Philip Reeve and Michael Chabon). A terrific story, the central character credible and fallible, the novel, by turns, wry and suspenseful. "Coming of age" doesn't do it justice. This is an authentic depiction of young adulthood and I recommend it whole-heartedly...
Ben has been wrestling in his best friend Al's shadow since ninth grade. Everyone expects Al to win the state championship this year. Ben wants that state title, though, badly. He's willing to risk the friendship to take Al down and make something of himself before he is dragged down to follow in the footsteps of the wrestling alum in his town. They all work in his dead-end town at a cinder block factory
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Rich Wallace was born on January 29, 1957 in Hackensack, New Jersey. He began writing as a first grader but academics were not his strong suit and he did not read much beyond what was required for his classes. As a teen-ager he was mostly interested on sports, especially track and cross country. In high school He started writing often and working show more on his school newspaper. He continued his writing as he attended Montclair State College. He took creative writing classes, including one that required him to write a novel, one chapter a week. He also interned at the Passaic Herald-News where he was later offered a paid reporting job. After graduating Montclair State in 1980 with a bachelor of arts degree, Rich Wallace went to work for several N.J. newspapers as a sports reporter and news editor and continually reworking that first novel he started in creative writing class. In 1988 he started working for Highlights for Children as a copy editor. He has since become senior editor at the magazine and publishing well written stories has become his passion. Then in 1996 after several rewrites his first novel Wrestling Sturbridge was published. He continued writing with novels such as Shots on Goal, Riding Time and Playing Without the Ball - all with sports related themes. He also penned a series called Winning Season with titles such as The Roar of the Crowd, Technical Foul, Fast Company and Double Fake. Wallace has said he has one goal for his writing - to offer an honest representation of how adolescent boys struggle to find their identity. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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