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Author
Series
Beartown volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the residents of Beartown, a community slowly being eaten alive by unemployment and the surrounding wilderness. A victory like this would draw national attention to the ailing town: it could attract government funding and an influx of talented athletes who would choose Beartown over the big nearby cities. A victory like this would certainly...
Author
Series
Beartown volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there's something about this place...
Author
Series
Beartown volume 2
Language
English
Description
A small community tucked deep in the forest, Beartown is home to tough, hardworking people who don't expect life to be easy or fair. No matter how difficult times get, they've always been able to take pride in their local ice hockey team. So it's a cruel blow when they hear that Beartown ice hockey might soon be disbanded. What makes it worse is the obvious satisfaction that all the former Beartown players, who now play for a rival team in the neighboring...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the residents of Beartown, a community slowly being eaten alive by unemployment and the surrounding wilderness. A victory like this would draw national attention to the ailing town: it could attract government funding and an influx of talented athletes who would choose Beartown over the big nearby cities. A victory like this would certainly...
Author
Series
Maple Hills volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA. It looks like everything is going according to plan when she gets a full scholarship to the University of California, Maple Hills and lands a place on their competitive figure skating team. Nothing will stand in her way, not even the captain of the hockey team, Nate Hawkins. Nate's focus as team captain is on keeping his team on the ice. Which is tricky when a facilities mishap means...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Skunk plays poorly in the neighborhood hockey game, Franklin regrets inviting her to play with his team, but realizing he wasn't so great at first either, Franklin sees that Skunk will improve with time and practice.
7) Icebreaker
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mickey James III is following in his father's (and grandfather's) skates by playing hockey at Hartland University, but he is not enjoying the situation: for one thing he is seriously depressed, unsure of anything, even whether he can make it as a hockey player (or wants to); more troubling his rival, Jaysen Caulfield, is also on the team and seems to bitterly resent him--and Mickey actually finds Jaysen very attractive and does not know how to deal...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, either in her hometown or on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of college, but when her family is struck by tragedy she puts her future on hold to care for her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, a new recruit on her brother Levi's hockey team. When Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, she reluctantly agrees to go undercover, drawing on her knowledge of chemistry and Ojibwe traditional...
10) Gretzky's game
Author
Publisher
Raincoast Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Though Ryan is small for his age, his desire to play hockey for a local team is huge, and he uses Wayne Gretzky, star center for the Edmonton Oilers, as his inspiration. Includes biographical information about Wayne Gretzky.
11) Ice rink rookie
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Pilar Ramirez loves to skate on ice, and normally she does not keep being born without part of her right foot a secret, but when her best friend convinces her to try out for the local hockey team Pilar decides not to mention her condition--but hockey presents her with some problems that plain skating did not, and Pilar needs to learn that being part of a team means being open with your teammates, so that they understand all your strengths and weaknesses....
Author
Series
Campus diaries volume 1
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Gigi Graham has exactly three goals: qualify for the women's national hockey team, win Olympic gold, and step out of her famous father's shadow. So far, so good, except for two little things. Fine-a little thing and a big, grumpy thing. She needs to improve her game behind the net, and she needs help from Luke Ryder. Ryder is six-foot five, built, opinionated, rude...and sexy as hell. But he's still the enemy. Briar's new hockey co-captain has his...
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It should have been a night of triumph for Alix's hockey team. But her mean teammate Lindsay decided to start up with her usual rude comments and today Alix, who usually tries to control her anger, let it finally run free. Alix lashes out and before she knows it, her coach is dragging her off Lindsay, and the invitation to the Canada National Women's U18 Team's summer camp is on the line. She needs to learn how to control this anger, and she is sure...
14) Dangerous play
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Zoe Alamandar has one goal: win the State Field Hockey Championships and earn a scholarship that will get her the hell out of Central New York. She and her co-captain Ava Cervantes have assembled a fierce team of dedicated girls who will work hard and play by the rules. But after Zoe is sexually assaulted at a party, she finds a new goal: make sure no girl feels unsafe again. Zoe and her teammates decide to stop playing by the rules and take justice...
Author
Series
Sylvie Scruggs volume 2
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Fourth-grader Sylvie Scruggs is old enough to join her town's new junior ice-hockey team, and she is a really good skater, even if she does have a tendency to close her eyes when she shoots, but fifth-grader Jamie Redmond does not like younger kids on the team, and when someone starts pulling pranks on Sylvie she is convinced that Jamie is responsible--and she enlists the help of her friends to prove it and get even.
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Jack Wickman is tired of skating in his big sister's shadow, after all she is five years older and a goalie (on the boys' team!) and he skates center so they really should not be compared to each other--he is convinced that he has the hockey talent, so all he needs is the chance to make a breakaway of his own.
17) Check, please!
Author
Series
Check please! volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018-2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Eric Bittle may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It is nothing like co-ed club hockey back in Georgia! First of all? There's checking (anything that hinders the player with possession of the puck, ranging from a stick check all the way to a physical sweep). And then, there is Jack-- his very...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the widely acclaimed She Weeps Each Time You're Born--a new novel, at once comic and moving, set in 1989 Danvers, Massachusetts, where a high school field hockey team discovers that the witchcraft of their Salem forebears may be the key to a winning season. In this tour de female force, the Danvers High School Falcons Varsity is on an unaccountable streak. In chapters dense with '80s iconography--from Heathers to Big Hair--Quan...
Author
Series
Alex McKnight mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
When a young Ojibwa woman asks former Detroit policeman Alex McKnight for assistance, the reluctant private investigator is plunged into a dangerous adventure involving a drugged out hockey team and two strange armed men, and a killer from abroad
20) Home or away
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Two friends, one Olympic dream, and the choice that stood in the way Once Leigh and Susy were close friends and teammates bound for Olympic hockey gold, but when Leigh's surefire plan to make the final roster backfired, she left everything behind to start over, including the one person who knew her secret. Two decades later, Leigh's a successful investment banker, happily married, and the mom of a hockey prodigy, so when a career opportunity lands...
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