For Young Athletes · Tennis · Ages 8 to 12
The Jump
A Novel About Mental Toughness and One Girl Who Learned to Play Free
Maya used to be so good. Then came the tight arm, the ugly racket, the matches that slip away, and a girl who starts to believe she is the problem. A novel about a young tennis player learning mental toughness the hard way, one court at a time.
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Why this book
The gentlest way in for a reluctant reader: the mental tools from Winning the Inner Game, told as a story instead of a lesson.
What's inside
32 chapters.
- She Used to Be So Good
- Where Were Your Feet?
- Ridgeline
- The Ugly Racket
- Six-Three, Six-Three
- More Court Time
- The Deal
- She Smiled Today
- Nine
- The Wall Never Clapped
- Maya Makes a Chart
- It Matters If You Like It
- Four Bounces
- What's the Number?
- Jumping Girl
- The Parking Lot
- Seven
- Don't Do That Here
- You Don't Text Back
- The Trunk
- Day One
- What Happened to Her
- The Knife
- The Notebook
- Hit Something With It
- Asking For It Back
- The Sentence
- Spikes Are Data
- First Set
- The Row of Nine-Year-Olds
- Out
- The Fence