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Braced
Book · 2017
Braced
8–12Best for kids★ 4.2
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Twelve-year-old Rachel Brooks is a starting forward when her scoliosis worsens and she has to wear a back brace 23 hours a day. She figures out how to keep playing the sport she loves. The author wore a brace herself as a kid.
Why we picked it
Soccer is central to Rachel's identity, so the book speaks to a kid whose whole world is the team, and it is one of the few stories that stays with a medical setback instead of skipping past it.
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