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Shauna Cross is an American author, screenwriter, and former roller derby athlete. She skated for the Los Angeles Derby Dolls under the pseudonym "Maggie Mayhem" and subsequently wrote the 2007 novel Derby Girl, a fictionalized version of her experiences in the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls league. In 2009, she wrote a film adaption of the novel ...
Sep 1, 2007 · 8 books38 followers. Follow. Shauna Cross is a roller derby athlete, author of Derby Girl, and screenwriter of Whip It!. Her roller derby pseudonym is "Maggie Mayhem," skating for the Los Angeles Derby Dolls. The book, and film, are fictionalized accounts of an experience skating with the Texas Rollergirls. She is presently working on a film ...
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Sep 4, 2007 · Derby Girl. Hardcover – September 4, 2007. Meet Bliss Cavendar, a blue haired, indie-rock loving misfit stuck in the tiny town of Bodeen, Texas. Her pageant-addicted mother expects her to compete for the coveted Miss Blue Bonnet crown, but Bliss would rather feast on roaches than be subjected to such rhinestone tyranny.
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Derby Girl is a 2007 novel by Shauna Cross. It tells the story of Bliss Cavendar, a girl from the fictional town of Bodeen, Texas, whose mother wants her to compete in beauty pageants, and seeks escape in the world of roller derby. The book was named an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults and a New York Public Library Book ...
Sep 4, 2007 · Shauna Cross is the author of Derby Girl, named an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults and Quick Pick for Young Adults, a YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, and a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. It is now a major motion picture, Whip It, directed by Drew Barrymore.
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- Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
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Sep 4, 2007 · Derby Girl. by. Shauna Cross. Publication date. 2007-09-04. Topics. Girls & Women, Social Issues - General, Sports & Recreation - Miscellaneous, Juvenile Fiction / Social Situations / Dating & Sex, Family - Parents, Social Issues - Dating & Sex, Juvenile Fiction, Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction, Fiction, Identity, Interpersonal relations ...
Sep 4, 2007 · When she discovers a league in nearby Austin, Bliss embarks on an epic journey full of hilarious tattooed girls, delicious boys in bands, and a few not-so-awesome realities even the most bad-assed derby chick has to learn. Imprint Publisher. Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) ISBN. 9781429997096.
