Mikayla's Victory (Sports Stories Series)
Publisher: Lorimer
Published: 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781550286380
Subjects: Pentathlon; Sports & Recreation - General; Foster home care; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Juvenile Fiction; Social Situations - Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance; Children: Grades 2-3; Social Issues - Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance; Girls Sports Stories; Girls Sports Stories Track; Juvenile Fiction / Sports & Recreation / Miscellaneous; KIDS; Kids/ Sports Novels; Children's 9-12 - Fiction - General; Blacks; Canada; Fiction
First sentence: Track and field was the last sport of the year and one of the most popular at Nellie McClung Middle School in Ottawa.
Description: When Mikayla is invited to train for the pentathlon, she must compete against a more experienced athlete, and finds it difficult to concentrate due to her Caribbean-born mother's severe illness, life with a white foster family, and the possibility that her little sister will be adopted by her foster parents.Training for the pentathlon, Mikayla must compete against a more experienced athlete, and concentrate despite her Caribbean-born mother's severe illness, life with a white foster family, and the possibility of her little sister's getting adopted