Maggie Vaults Over the Moon

<p class=ql-align-center>Girls who play sports and the coaches and families who support them will thoroughly enjoy this warm uplifting story!</p><p class=ql-align-center><strong>- Christine Brennan USA TODAY Columnist and Author of <em>On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's Sports</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(253 253 252 1); color: rgba(10 10 10 1)>When Maggie Steele loses her older brother the future seems to close in around her. Life on her family's Kansas farm keeps moving but Maggie feels stuck in grief pressure and self-doubt until she discovers an unlikely way forward: the pole vault.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(253 253 252 1); color: rgba(10 10 10 1)>What begins as a daring escape becomes something much more. As Maggie learns to trust her body face fear and push past the limits others place on her the crossbar becomes more than a mark of athletic progress. It becomes the line between the life she has known and the person she is becoming.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(253 253 252 1); color: rgba(10 10 10 1)>Now in its enhanced Second Edition </span><em style=background-color: rgba(253 253 252 1); color: rgba(10 10 10 1)>Maggie Vaults Over the Moon</em><span style=background-color: rgba(253 253 252 1); color: rgba(10 10 10 1)> is a coming-of-age sports novel for middle grade and young teen readers ages 10 and up grades 5-8. Ideal for independent reading classroom discussion Battle of the Books programs team culture and family conversation this edition features a foreword by Olympic Pole Vault Champion Katerina Stefanidi and chapter discussion questions by Dr. Melissa I. White a Mental Performance Consultant whose former student-athletes include 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials pole vault champion Bridget (Guy) Williams.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(253 253 252 1); color: rgba(10 10 10 1)>Selected for the Wichita Diocese Catholic Schools Battle of the Books named one of the best track-and-field novels of all time by </span><em style=background-color: rgba(253 253 252 1); color: rgba(10 10 10 1)>Citius Mag</em><span style=background-color: rgba(253 253 252 1); color: rgba(10 10 10 1)> and praised by </span><em style=background-color: rgba(253 253 252 1); color: rgba(10 10 10 1)>Kirkus Reviews</em><span style=background-color: rgba(253 253 252 1); color: rgba(10 10 10 1)> as </span><em style=background-color: rgba(253 253 252 1); color: rgba(10 10 10 1)>a fine YA novel about perseverance in sports and in life</em><span style=background-color: rgba(253 253 252 1); color: rgba(10 10 10 1)> Maggie is a story about grit family healing and the courage to keep reaching higher. The audiobook is narrated by Audie Award and Emmy Award-winning Tavia Gilbert (Blackstone Audio).</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(253 253 252 1); color: rgba(10 10 10 1)>Contains no profanity or sexual content. Honest treatment of grief family loss and recovery.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p class=ql-align-center></p>