{"id":1844,"date":"2025-03-24T05:49:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T12:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2025-03-22T16:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T23:20:25","slug":"twist-tumble-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/twist-tumble-triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"Twist, Tumble, Triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/twisttumblefc-960x1137.jpg?resize=525%2C622&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"622\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-23174\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Twist, Tumble, Triumph: The Story of Champion Gymnast \u00c1gnes Keleti<\/em><br \/>\nby Deborah Bodin Cohen (Author), Kerry Olitzky (Author), and Martina Peluso (Illustrator)<br \/>\n<em>@ <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4l70iDd\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9798765619773\">Bookshop<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Doing gymnastics, \u00c1gnes Keleti feels free-until the day her coach tells her there&#8217;s a new law in Hungary barring Jewish athletes from the gym. Once Germany sends soldiers into Budapest, they are impossible to ignore and \u00c1gnes hatches a plan. With identity papers from a Christian woman, she goes into hiding in a small farming village. She does housework for a family who support the Nazis, but she never stops dreaming of the day she will be able to compete at the Olympics. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/twisttumbleint.jpg?resize=525%2C321&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"321\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23175\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nonfiction.monday.jpg?resize=158%2C111\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" width=\"158\" height=\"111\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s Nonfiction Monday!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved. <em>(*bookstore affiliate<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twist, Tumble, Triumph: The Story of Champion Gymnast \u00c1gnes Keleti by Deborah Bodin Cohen (Author), Kerry Olitzky (Author), and Martina Peluso (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop Booktalk: Doing gymnastics, \u00c1gnes Keleti feels free-until the day her coach tells her there&#8217;s a new law in Hungary barring Jewish athletes from the gym. Once Germany sends soldiers &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/twist-tumble-triumph\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Twist, Tumble, Triumph&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction-monday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pam6qm-tK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1149,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/where-are-you-agnes\/","url_meta":{"origin":1844,"position":0},"title":"Where Are You, Agnes?","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"September 13, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Where Are You, Agnes? by Tessa McWatt (Author) and Zuzanna Celej (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Booktalk: Agnes Martin was born on the Canadian prairies in the early twentieth century. 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