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D2: The Mighty Ducks Are Back!

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The ducks are back!, and with more spunk then ever. They are going to the jounior goodwill game in L.A. where they encounter troubles with Coach Bombay, and meet the dreded Iceland team. Can the ducks go for the gold while trying to figure out what happened to Coach Bombay?

I loved this book!!! If you liked the movie, you'd love this book. There's parts that aren't even in the movie!!! It also throughly explains the "Things that make you go hmm..." in the movie.

I bought this a few weeks ago from market place. The book wasn't in the best of condition but the book was great! Tons of non movie scenes. I recommend this book if you liked the movie.

I'd like to read this book, but I have seen the movie, which is one of my favorite movies of all times. I don't think Adam Banks deserved to get hurt. It was also nice that Charlie gave up his spot for adam. I will not tell anything more cause I don't want to give it all away.

D2: MIGHTY DUCKS ARE BACK! is a very good book--mostly for boys or girls aged nine to twelve because there are a few tough words to understand if you are under nine. Although this book was written in 1992 and later turned into a Walt Disney movie, it's truly a fabulous book.

D2: MIGHTY DUCKS ARE BACK! is about a group of twenty teenagers who play ice hockey at the Junior Goodwill Games in Los Angeles. Coach Gordan Bombay is in a world of sponsors and business. Bombay only cares about Team USA's sponsor, hendrix, and trying to impress the board members of Hendrix.
I enjoy Julie "The Cat" Gaffney, the goalie from Bangor, Maine, because she's a great goalie and she has a nice personality. Jordan Horowitz, the author, wants you to get into hockey. I was surprised how much hockey is mental and not physical.

Los Angeles is a perfect setting for this book although California has a mild temperature. Downtown walls are covered with graffiti and skilled teenagers playing schoolyard hockey. Team USA decides to play these juveniles and actually learn from playing them. They learned how to play like Team USA.

I truly recommend this book although it hasn't won a single award. Jordan Horowitz' style of writing is adventurous but exciting.

Team USA is led by Adam Banks and Charlie Conway, longtime hockey stars. USA fans are shocked when Banks gets checked by Olaf Sanderson from the Vikings of Iceland. Banks tries and proves to Coach Bombay that he can play. He says to Coach Bombay that scouts are watching and he just has to play.

Jordan Horowitz was inspired by the 1980 Team USA Olympic win over Russia and so he wrote this book. This book is like most hockey books by Matt Christopher. I've read all of Matt Christopher's hockey books and D2: MIGHTY DUCKS ARE BACK! is much better. D2: MIGHTY DUCKS ARE BACK! is more suspenseful and exciting. I am comparing Christopher and Horowitz because they are both very good sports, although Christopher has written many more books.

Horowitz writes with an athletic edge, because he must know a lot about sports. H eknows what he's writing about. he knows kids will enjoy his books. That's what I love about him.
I was surpised how much hockey is mental and not physical. Even though I have not played much hockey myself. I learned this from the book and hopefully you will, too.