Roller Girl Book Summary. Nicole, however, who's passionate about ballet, decides not to follow along with astrid, creating the first real rift the girls. Rachel is a girl who astrid and nicole didn't like but nicole does dance with her and they are starting to become best friends.
Its vibrant and relevant illustrations are matched only by the empowering, realistic text. For most of her twelve years,. So when astrid’s mom introduces a junior roller derby camp, astrid assumes that she and nicole will go.
Set in the northeastern united states, the story follows a young girl on her search for an independent identity.
Parents need to know that victoria jamieson's 2016 newbery honor book, roller girl, is a graphic novel about how things change for astrid during the summer between fifth and sixth grades. Taking place in the summer before her first year of junior high, astrid joins roller derby camp, but soon life starts to turn into a scoreboard when nicole would rather do dance camp with astrid’s enemy, changing all that astrid ever knew about how to steer through life. All of this is to say that i will read any release from author victoria jamieson, so naturally, her newest book, all’s faire in middle school, has landed a spot on my tbr list. One of the best attributes of the story was that the main character, astrid, never became good at roller derby.