Roller Girl, Victoria Jamieson
Graphic novel/Realistic fiction
From the first time Astrid sees a roller derby match, she’s hooked. It’s a game where a bunch of girls speed around a track trying to knock each other out of the ring. It’s fast and kind of violent and fully awesome, and Astrid desperately wants to become a roller girl – even though her best friend Nicole is not so interested.
So Astrid goes to roller derby camp, and even though she has visions of becoming the team’s number-one jammer, it turns out that roller skating – like, just the staying upright part – is really hard. She spends the first two weeks of practice falling…and getting knocked over…and falling. Plus, ever since she went to roller derby camp and Nicole went to ballet camp, they haven’t even spoken a word to each other – and they’ve been friends their whole lives.
But with a lot of practice and some new friends – and hey, an entire team of junior roller girls – Astrid is sure to skate her way into a fabulous future.