TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waters,Charles
AU  - Sorell,Traci
TI  - Mascot
SN  - 9781623543808
AV  - PZ7.5.W286 Mas 2023
U1  - FIC WAT 
KW  - Indians as mascots
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Sports team mascots
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - School mascots
KW  - Middle school students
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - Novels in verse
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Ages 10 and up; Charlesbridge; Grades 7-9; Charlesbridge
N2  - "In Rye, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC, people work hard, kids go to school, and football is big on Friday nights. An eighth-grade English teacher creates an assignment for her class to debate whether Rye's mascot should stay or change. Now six middle schoolers--all with different backgrounds and beliefs--get involved in the contentious issue that already has the suburb turned upside down with everyone choosing sides and arguments getting ugly. Told from several perspectives, readers see how each student comes to new understandings about identity, tradition, and what it means to stand up for real change" --
ER  -