Depois de uma lesão forçar Ria a abandonar a equipe de natação, uma inesperada amizade com Cotton, um garoto autista, a ajuda a lidar com o relacionamento abusivo que ela tinha com seu ex-treinador. Ria Williams era uma nadadora de elite nos Jogos Olímpicos. Como alguém que se esforçou na escola, em grande parte ao seu TDAH, a natação era o único que Ria podia brilhar. Mas enquanto seus pais estavam focados nos troféus, ninguém se deu conta de como as regras rígidas e punições do treinador Benny controlavam todos os aspectos da vida de Ria. Quanto mais difícil ele era com ela, mais nítido era seu foco. Quanto maior o machucado, melhor o mergulho. Até que um estranho acidente muda tudo. Assim, Ria é devolvida à sua vida, livre de Benny. Para preencher seus atuais dias vazios e sem objetivos, Ria reacende a amizade com Cotton, um garoto que ela conhecia no ensino fundamental. Para Cotton, ela consegue dizer o que Benny fazia, e através dos olhos dele, Ria consegue enxergar o que era: abuso. Então Benny está de volta e oferece a Ria uma segunda chance, com uma oportunidade de mergulho que poderá mudar a sua vida. Mas não somente isso - o treinamento de Benny vem junto. Só de imaginar estar novamente sob seu controle parece impossível de suportar, mas o mesmo acontece com o afastamento. Como você separa o impossível do possível, quando algo que você mais ama está preso na coisa que você mais teme?
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Sarah Tomp
Sarah Tomp has a MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is the author of My Best Everything, a novel for young adults, ( Little, Brown Books) and a picture book; Red, White, and Blue Good-bye (Walker Books for Young Readers). Sarah teaches creative writing for University of California San Diego Extension. She reviews books for Bookbrowse.com and contributes to the Through the Tollbooth . She’s @swtomp on Twitter. The longer story: My family moved a lot when I was growing up, as my father, a geologist, pursued his love of research and teaching. The houses, neighborhoods, and scenery changed with each move, but inside our home there were always more books than anything else. My childhood summers were spent on an isolated lake in Maine. My father was busy mapping the geologic formations of the state while my mother, two brothers, sister and I were given the luxury of avoiding boredom. We read, swam, hiked, climbed trees and boulders, designed clam farms, caught frogs, picked leeches and blueberries, made sand candles and other things from shells, driftwood, rocks, or whatever else we found throughout the day. One summer my brothers caused a bang when their homemade still blew up. They were always making something, so that explosion wasn’t anything I paid much attention to, or even thought about, until recently. Those summers were when I perfected the art of daydreaming—one of my most important writer’s tools. After graduating from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, with a degree in Special Education, I planned to stay and teach in that small college town. But then I went to visit a friend in San Diego. After seeing the sun and the sand and the ocean and the palm trees and burritos, along with a certain young Navy officer, I went back to Virginia and loaded my car with important things—such as a large rock with a fossil embedded in it (I am a geologist’s daughter, after all)—and then headed west where I took a job teaching in San Diego. I’m still here. And I still love the sun and the sand and the ocean and the palm trees and burritos, along with that same young Navy officer—except he’s not quite as young or even in the Navy anymore. We now have three children who are all taller than I am. The fossil rock is under our lemon tree. As a teacher, and later a mother, I fell in love with books for children and teens, and decided to try and write my own. I am passionate about books for young people in all forms—including those which are ready to read and those in progress. I love to talk about books and writing. I’m an active member of the San Diego SCBWI where I’ve served as a mentor. I’ve taught writing to students of all ages, from elementary school through adult.
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