Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Clancy with the Puck by Chris Mizzoni

Traded to the Hogtown Maple Buds near the end of the regular season, Clancy Cooke helps his new team make the playoffs.  With his skating and stick handling, Maple Buds fans believe, the team has a real shot at the Stanley Cup.
The visitors take an early lead in that seventh game of the finals, but [...]

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Frost by Nicole Luiken

On the surface of things, seventeen-year old Johnny Van Der Zee has the world by the tail.  A talented hockey player, he is being scouted by teams in Ontario, and has a solid chance at a career in the NHL.  He is bright, handsome and outgoing, the life of every party, and the most popular [...]

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

The Farm Team by Linda Bailey and Bill Slavin

Every winter, the animals on Stolski’s farm play hockey, practising hard for the big game, the one that will decide the winner of the Stolksi Cup.  Though the Farm Team has lost that big game fifty years in a row to their rivals, the Bush League Bandits, they love hockey and they play with heart.  [...]

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

Yossi’s Goal by Ellen Schwartz

When they fled the pogroms in Russia and made their way to Canada, the inhabitants of Braslav thought they were coming to a land of hope and opportunity. However, though they are free from the fear of soldiers arriving to burn their homes and kill them, Yossi and his family discover that they have [...]