Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Beartown volume 3
Language
English
Appears on list
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
Language
English
Appears on these lists
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
Sylvie Scruggs volume 2
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Edition
First edition.
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
Series
Zach and Zoe mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Puffin Books
Language
English
Description
With only days before the last game of the Stanley Cup finals in Boston, eight-year-old twins Zach and Zoe are determined to find hockey star Mike Gordon's missing lucky necklace.
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Beartown returns with an unforgettable novel "about people-about strength and tribal loyalty and what we unwittingly do when trying to show our boys how to be men" (Jojo Moyes). 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...
Author
Series
Lucy tries sports volume 4
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Language
English
Description
In this picture book, Lucy and her friends learn introductory hockey skills as they try out a new sport.
8) Dino-hockey
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Language
English
Description
The meat-eating dinosaurs challenge the plant-eating dinosaurs to a hockey match.
Author
Series
Incredible worlds of Wally McDoogle volume 7
Publisher
Word Pub
Language
English
Description
Wally McDoogle as team mascot for the Middletown Super Chickens is calamity enough until he is also thrown in to play goalie.
11) Backup goalie
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Language
English
Description
Jamie thought everything was perfect on his hockey team. But when the goalie is injured, Jamie has to step in to play the unfamiliar position. With the state championship at stake, can Jamie help his team skate to victory or are they all on thin ice?
12) Icebreaker
Author
Publisher
Godwin books/Henry Holt and Company
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A. L. Graziadei's YA debut about two hockey players fighting to be the best-and the romance that catches them by surprise along the way. Seventeen-year-old Mickey James III is a college freshman, a brother to five sisters, and a hockey legacy. With a father and a grandfather who have gone down in NHL history, Mickey is almost guaranteed the league's top draft spot. The only person standing in his way is Jaysen Caulfield, a contender for the #1 spot...
Author
Series
Ready Freddy! volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Language
English
Description
When first-grader Freddy decides to try out for peewee hockey, his archenemy and school bully Max decides to also try out for the one slot left on the team.
Author
Publisher
Annick Press Ltd
Language
English
Description
"Young Jacques Plante loves hockey so much that he uses home-made equipment to play as much hockey as he can. Once Jacques becomes a professional player, he takes the brave stand to introduce a piece of equipment into the game that has never been used before-the goalie mask-changing the face of hockey forever."--
Author
Series
Boxcar children mysteries volume 80
Publisher
Albert Whitman
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
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Language
English
Description
Kenyan orphans, Kitoo and Nigosi, spend their days studying, playing soccer, helping their elders with chores around the orphanage and reading from the limited selection of books in their library. When the librarian gives Kitoo a copy of Sports Around the World he becomes fascinated by an image of the Canadian national men's ice hockey team. Then one day the fates align and Kitoo finds a pair of beat up old roller blades, he teaches himself to skate...
Author
Publisher
Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Language
English
Description
From building an ice rink in your living room, to scoring a golden goal, to the thrill of your first hockey game, 5-Minutes Hockey Stories is jam-packed with a dozen true stories about Canada's game. Each story is the perfect length for reading aloud in five minutes--ideal for young fans and future stars!
In Texas Group Catalog
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by MetroShare Consortium can be requested from other Texas Group Catalog libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request