| Abstract |
"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" -- Publisher's description. |
| General note | "Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's 'tradition'"--Cover. |
| Interest age level |
Ages 10 and up |
| Interest grade level |
Grades 5-8 |
| Audience |
710 Lexile |
| Awards note | Jane Addams Books for Older children, Honor book, 2024 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Waters, Charles. Mascot Watertown : Charlesbridge, [2023] 9781632893567 |
| Genre/form | Fiction |
| Genre/form | Juvenile works |
| Genre/form | Novels in verse |
| Genre/form | Novels in verse. |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
| LCCN | 2022031366 |
| ISBN | 9781623543808 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1623543800 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
