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Excerpted: Takedown by Ali Bryan

In her young adult novel Takedown (Cormorant Books / Dancing Cat) Ali Bryan’s fierce advocacy for women in sports is in full force with a story of a sixteen-year-old star wrestler who compromises her chances at a wrestling scholarship by participating in an illegal, but lucrative MMA fight to raise money for her father to undergo an experimental ALS treatment. Read the first chapter of this hopeful, coming-of-age story, below.

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