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Sweeney, Joyce
HEADLOCK
New York : Holt, 2006
IL YA
ISBN 080508018X
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 Kyle Bailey has dreams of becoming the next WWE superstar.  To achieve his dream he enrolls in wrestling school but disaster is waiting for him.  From broken bones and missing teeth, to pretty girls, alcoholism, illness and family problems­Kyle must deal with it all or allow it to sideline his dreams.

Patter:Talk about W.W.E.  Ask students what they think it will take to become a W.W.E star.  Explain about Kyle and his dream.  Read page 3 beginning with "Jeff Broadhurst"…through "free to go".  (Maggie Shanley, librarian, mshanley@bchs.k12.va.us)
SUBJECTS:     Wrestling -- Fiction.
                        Grandmothers -- Fiction.
                        Mothers and sons -- Fiction.

 
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