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Maple Hills volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
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"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...
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Beartown volume 2
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Have you ever seen a town fall? Ours did. Have you ever seen a town rise? Ours did that, too. 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...
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2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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"Akim Aliu--also known as "Dreamer"--is a Ukrainian-Nigerian-Canadian professional hockey player whose career took him all around the world and who experienced systemic racism at every turn. Dreamer tells Akim's incredible story, from being the only Black child in his Ukrainian community, to his family struggling to make ends meet while living in Toronto, to confronting the racist violence he often experienced both on and off the ice. This is a gut-wrenching...
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[2023]
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"Eleven-year-old Elliot loves hockey and finally convinces his parents to sign him up. There’s just one problem: he can barely skate. But he is determined. He practices every chance he gets and even takes extra lessons. He is still miles behind the rest of his teammates in terms of skills and speed, though. So when the goalie gets injured, Elliot surprises everyone by offering to take his place. He figures his 'jelly-legs' won’t be quite so obvious...
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Eden Christiansen never imagined her role as her younger brother Owen's cheerleader would keep her on the sidelines of her own life. Looking after the reckless NHL rookie leaves little time for Eden to focus on her own career in journalism. Team veteran and bad-boy enforcer Jace Jacobsen has built his career on the infamous reputation of his aggressive behavior, on and off the ice. When his carelessness leads to a career-threatening injury and Eden...
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2020.
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"Tim O'Connor is paid to be violent. He plays for the El Paso Storm in the West Texas Hockey League. People call him Oak. He's been an enforcer for longer than his hip or shoulder or back have been able to hold together. He is a broken machine of gristle and rage. And he has been away from home for too long. He's called back to Boston by his mother's death. There he confronts a life he failed to live, a daughter he doesn't know, and a body that is...
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IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Looks at the achievements of several notable hockey players.
Hockey history is filled with larger-than-life icons from its early years through the modern game. This title explores the achievements of hockey’s greats, their seemingly unbreakable records, greatest triumphs, and the pioneering efforts of women to grow the sport into a game truly for everyone. The title features exciting stories, engaging photographs, informative sidebars, a glossary,...
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Profiles of the best players of all time plus the up-and-coming new stars. Hockey fans everywhere are always hungry for more information on the game. Hockey's Greatest Stars profiles hockey's greatest players, the all-stars and the promising young lions. Fans will enjoy the book's lively and incisive commentary combined with memorable quotes and insider tales of trades and off-ice antics. The book profiles 60 of the greatest NHL players of all time...
11) Stars of hockey
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[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"Simple text and full-color photographs feature eight current outstanding professional hockey players"--
14) Wingman
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2023.
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The other night, Trace Brewster, Max's best friend and star hockey player for the Hawks, scored on his own net and put the team's chances of qualifying for an upcoming tournament in jeopardy. Since then Trace has gone silent and is shutting everyone out. But Max thinks there's more going on with his friend than what happened on the ice. For one thing, there are bruises on Trace's face that he refuses to explain. Can Max find a way to get Trace to...
15) Tooth Fairy
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[2010]
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Derek Thompson is one of the toughest hockey players around until he's sentenced to one week's hard labor as the world's most unlikely tooth fairy. Even though he must sport frilly wings and learn the magical tricks of the trade from his silver-winged superiors, Derek's determined to do the job HIS way and prove he's got what it takes.
16) Girls' hockey
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Highlights today's stars of women's hockey and the skills they've mastered, including shooting, stickhandling, passing, and goaltending.
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2007
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In the tradition of A Season on the Brink and Peter Gzowksi's The Game of Our Lives, Shawna Richer has had the exclusive assignment of chronicling Sidney Crosby's incredible rookie season. Beginning with the NHL entry draft that almost never was, Richer follows Crosby to Pittsburgh, where he is greeted as the team's savior and moves in with living legend Mario Lemieux. From there it's onto the ice, where the team's youngest player proves to be its...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
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"Learn what it takes to become a professional hockey player. Readers get an insider's look at how athletes prepare for competition as well as the special events players participate in when they aren't on the ice"--