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1) Beartown
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, comes a poignant, charming novel about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything. 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...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Over the course of two weeks, everything in Beartown will change. 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 that prevents it. The destruction caused by a ferocious late-summer storm reignites the old rivalry between Beartown and the neighboring town of Hed, a rivalry which has always been fought through their ice hockey teams. Maya Andersson and...
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...
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Series
Lucy tries sports volume 4
Language
English
Description
In this picture book, Lucy and her friends learn introductory hockey skills as they try out a new sport.
7) Broken ice
Author
Series
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...
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Series
Brooklyn Bruisers volume 2
Language
English
Description
He's a fighter in the rink, but he's about to learn that playing nice can help you score.
9) Icebreaker
Author
Language
English
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
Series
Boxcar children volume 80
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.
12) Checked
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
To help his dog through cancer treatment, Conor gives up hockey and finds himself considering who he is without the sport that has defined him, and connecting more with his family and best friend.
13) Faceoff fall out
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When Jackson 'Jax' Kingsford gets to play in the state hockey tournament, he has to play against his former best friend, Archer Foss. The two were once neighbors and best friends. But then Archer's family moved, splitting up their friendship. What will happen when Jax and Archer face off against each other in the big game?"--