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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Appears on list
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
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"After her girls' ice hockey team is cut for budget reasons, Michigan tries out for the boys' team, and earns a place on the starting lineup. But when she bests her teammates with her skills and her refusal to back down, hazing crosses the line into assault."--
Author
Series
Beartown volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A breathtaking new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People and A Man Called Ove, The Winners returns to the close-knit, resilient community of Beartown for a story about first loves, second chances, and last goodbyes. Over the course of two weeks, everything in Beartown will change. 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...
Author
Series
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
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After years alone in his castle, Vlad is ready to try something new, so he strolls into town to find a hobby. At first none of the activities seem quite right for him. But when he overhears the junior hockey team vowing to crush and destroy their rivals, he's thrilled. It sounds perfect! Vlad immediately falls for the game, but he also quickly realizes that superhuman powers don't mean much in hockey without a mastery of the basics. Can a centuries-old...
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jamie, the captain and star forward of the Comets hockey team, thinks everything is perfect. His two best friends, Jill and Brett, are amazing players too. The team is bound for the state championship. But when Jill is told she can't play on the boys' team anymore, and Brettt is hurt during a match, everything starts to fall apart. To make matters even worse, Jamie is pulled from his position to fill Brett's place at goal. Can Jamie make the adjustment...
Author
Series
Brooklyn Bruisers volume 2
Language
English
Description
When his chronic hip injury becomes too obvious to ignore, hockey star and team captain Patrick O{u2019}Doul is sent to massage therapist Ari Bettini who, determined to help him heal, gives new meaning to the idea of TLC.
10) Dino-hockey
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The meat-eating dinosaurs challenge the plant-eating dinosaurs to a hockey match.
Author
Series
Publisher
Waterhouse Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Winning has always come naturally for stud ice hockey defenseman Gus "the Bus" Persson. On the ice or off, he's never had any trouble scoring, racking up goals--and girls. As the best player in his rookie class and the number-one draft pick of the Malibu Suns, he's taking his game to the next level and is justifiably full of swagger. So why does one of the Suns' ice girls treat him like he's invisible? Bo St. James doesn't have time for rookie hotshots...
12) Beartown
Author
Series
Beartown volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Cerca del lago en Beartown hay una pista de hielo, y en la pista Kevin, Amat, Benji y el resto del. Equipo junior de hockey sobre hielo está a punto de competir en la semifinal nacional; y, de hecho, tiene la oportunidad de ganar. Todos los sueños y esperanzas de este lugar descansan ahora sobre los hombros de un grupo de adolescentes. Bajo la pesada carga, el partido se convierte en la catálisis de un acto violento que dejará a una joven traumatizada...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"SpongeBob amazes an ice-hockey scout with his skills while sweeping up the Krusty Krab, and he soon finds himself playing professional hockey! But when he realizes whose team he is playing for, and who he must play against, SpongeBob starts having second thoughts"--Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Holland Delviss, the only girl on the boys' high school hockey team, is forced to confront gender role expectations and her self-doubts when she is selected to be featured during HockeyFest and finds herself falling for her bossy team co-captain.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 80
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When a professional hockey player comes to Greenfield with plans to build an ice skating rink, the Alden children suspect that someone in town wants to stop the project.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The beaver flood has finally frozen perfect ice, without a bump or a ripple. For the kids in town, it's Christmas in November. They wait, impatiently, for the right moment. Finally, it arrives: the full moon. They huff and puff through logging trails, farms, back roads and tamarack swamps, the powdery snow soaking pant legs and boots, till they see it--their perfect ice, waiting. And the game is on.
17) Icebreaker
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
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...
18) Broken ice
Author
Series
Nils Shapiro novels volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Nils Shapiro has been hired to find missing Linnea Engstrom, a teenager from the small northern hockey town of Warroad, MN. Most of Warroad is in Minneapolis for the state high school hockey tournament, and Linnea never returned from last night's game. Linnea's friend Haley Housch is also missing--and soon found dead. Shot through the arm with an arrow at the Haley Housch crime scene, only the quick work of medical examiner Char Northagen saves Nil's...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
One of the greatest sports figures of all time offers candid reflections on the mentors, teammates, and rivals who inspired him and discusses famous moments in hockey history from the viewpoint of one who created many of those moments.
20) The long game
Author
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"To the world they are rivals, but to each other they are everything. Ten years. That's how long Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov have been seeing each other. How long they've been keeping their relationship a secret. From friends, from family ... from the league. If Shane wants to stay at the top of his game, what he and Ilya share has to remain secret. He loves Ilya, but what if going public ruins everything? Ilya is sick of secrets. Shane has gotten...
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