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Stink and the ultimate thumb-wrestling smackdown

by Megan McDonald · 2011

Sport · ranked #46 in category

Reviewed by the Book Verdict editorial team

After second-grader Stink gets an unsatisfactory grade in physical education, his parents tell him he must play a sport and so he masters thumb wrestling, as seen on a sports channel.

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The verdict

Category
Sport
First published
2011 · 2010s
Author
Megan McDonald
Standing
Recommended

About Sport

Sports writing captures something essential about competition, effort and what it means to push the body to its limits. The best sports books are also portraits of their era.

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