{"product_id":"fight-like-a-girl-isbn-9780735265578","title":"Fight Like a Girl","description":"\u003cb\u003eAward-winning thriller writer Sheena Kamal delivers a kick-ass debut YA novel about a teenage kick-boxer coming to terms with her father passing away.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLove and violence. In some families they're bound up together, dysfunctional and poisonous, passed from generation to generation like eye color or a quirk of smile. Trisha's trying to break the chain, channeling her violent impulses into Muay Thai kickboxing, an unlikely sport for a slightly built girl of Trinidadian descent. Her father comes and goes as he pleases, his presence adding a layer of tension to the Toronto east-end townhouse that Trisha and her mom call home, every punch he lands on her mother carving itself indelibly into Trisha's mind. Until the night he wanders out drunk in front of the car Trisha is driving, practicing on her learner's permit, her mother in the passenger seat. Her father is killed, and her mother seems strangely at peace. Lighter, somehow. Trisha doesn't know exactly what happened that night, but she's afraid it's going to happen again. Her mom has a new man in her life and the patterns, they are repeating.\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eNOW\u003c\/i\u003e’s must read books for spring\u003cbr\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of 2020\u003cbr\u003eOne of CCBC’s Best Books for Kids and Teens Fall 2020\u003cbr\u003eOne of CBC Books' Best Middle-Grade and Young Adult Books of 2020\u003cbr\u003eOne of Canadian Children's Book News’ Best Books of 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eFight Like a Girl\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fascinating and complicated.\" \u003cb\u003e—STARRED REVIEW, \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With a propulsive, assured voice, Trisha’s tale spools out in a compelling, musical rush.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“If this is the future of YA, long may it prosper.”\u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“The prose is hard-hitting and characters perfectly nuanced as Kamal reminds teen girls to step into their power both outside and inside the ring.”\u003ci\u003e —\u003cb\u003e49th Shelf\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHEENA KAMAL\u003c\/b\u003e holds an HBA in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and was awarded a TD Canada Trust scholarship for community leadership and activism around the issue of homelessness. Her debut novel \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Ones\u003c\/i\u003e (US)\/\u003ci\u003eEyes Like Mine\u003c\/i\u003e (UK) won the 2018 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, a Strand Magazine Critics Award and Macavity Award for Best First Novel. It has been sold in fifteen countries and was a \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail \u003c\/i\u003eBestseller, a \u003ci\u003eTime M\u003c\/i\u003eagazine Recommended Read, an iBooks Best Book, a Bustle Best Book and a Powell's Pick. \u003ci\u003eFight Like a Girl \u003c\/i\u003eis her debut YA novel and is also published in the UK by Hot Key Books. Kamal divides her time between Vancouver and Toronto.","brand":"Penguin Teen Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301076160741,"sku":"NP9780735265578","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780735265578.jpg?v=1767726853","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/fight-like-a-girl-isbn-9780735265578","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}