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Author
Series
Nino (Yuyi Morales) volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Lucha Libre champion Niño has no trouble fending off monstrous opponents, but when his little sisters awaken from their naps, he is in for a no-holds-barred wrestling match that will truly test his skills.
2) Freakboy
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Told from three viewpoints, seventeen-year-old Brendan, a wrestler, struggles to come to terms with his place on the transgender spectrum while Vanessa, the girl he loves, and Angel, a transgender acquaintance, try to help.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Family reunions mean lots of hugging, handshaking, and hair tousling. And Russell's relatives? Well, they are more... enthusiastic than most. BIGGER than most. BRAWNIER than most. They're wrestlers! Skinny and scrawny Russell will have to meet, greet, and defeat this clan with some spectacular moves of his own!"--
5) Kid Coach
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After turning his couch-potato father into a wrestling champion, Kid Coach discovers that he left out the most important lesson--the importance of being a good sport.
6) Dead guy spy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When fifth-grader Nathan Abercrombie, a half-dead zombie whose body cannot heal itself, is approached by messengers from the Bureau of Useful Misadventures (B.U.M.) and offered the chance for a cure if he will become a spy, he doesn't realize that B.U.M. is not exactly trustworthy.
7) Alondra
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Alonda finds friendship, fame, and love on the streets of Coney Island when she befriends a group of teen wrestlers"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When one of the boys on the wrestling team she manages calls her a "practice girl", someone to hook up with but not to date, high-school senior Jo is forced to examine uncomfortable truths about her relationships, from her best friend to the boy she likes, before better understanding her real worth.
9) Tumble
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez reaches out to her estranged biological father--who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador--and the eccentric extended family of wrestlers she has never met, bringing Adela closer to understanding the expansive definition of family.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"¡Sana, sana, colita de rana! ¡Si no sana hoy, sanará mañana! After suffering a boo-boo while playing with her brother and her plush sidekick Mister Rana, Tina's aspiration of becoming a great wrestler is dashed. Her ouchie makes her question her dreams because, in her brother's own, girls aren't meant to be good wrestlers. However, Tina will soon find that girls can do anything with a bit of love and sana, sana, colita de rana in her corner!"--...
Author
Series
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles volume 5
Language
English
Description
"There is going to be an amateur wrestling match at the Ronald Rump Civic Center, and Michelangelo and Raphael can't wait to enter. But when they see who their opponents are, they wonder if they'll make it out alive!"--Cover back.
Michelangelo and Raphael enter an amateur wrestling contest, but when they see who their opponents are, they wonder if they will make it out alive.
15) Bump
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
MJ knows what it means to hurt. Bruises from gymnastics heal, but big hurts-like her dad not being around anymore-don't go away. Now her mom needs to work two jobs, and MJ doesn't have friends at school to lean on. There is only one thing MJ loves: the world of professional wrestling. She especially idolizes the luchadores and the stories they tell in the ring. When MJ learns that her neighbor, Mr. Arellano, runs a wrestling school, she has a new...
16) Dino-wrestling
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Meat-eating and vegetarian dinosaurs compete at the wrestling jamboree, demonstrating such styles as sumo, Greco-Roman, and lucha libre.
Author
Series
Time warp trio series volume 9
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Joe, Fred, and Sam demonstrate some of their favorite professional wrestling moves, including the "Time Warp Trio Blind Ninja Smackdown," when they're transported to ancient Rome and forced to fight as gladiators in the Colosseum.
18) Wrestling mania!
Author
Series
Pizza and Taco volume 7
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Pizza's and Taco's moms want them to join a sports team, so when they see the wrestling sign-up sheet at school they choose their wrestling names and create signature moves, hoping to join the club--Provided by publisher.
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