Customer Reviews

Getting in the Game

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I got this book for my 10 and 11 year old daughters....they ABSOLUTELY LOVED it ! They kept saying "Dad, you have to read this book". I did and it is a wonderful book. As a former high school hockey player, I loved the hockey action, some of the best hockey action for middle school kids I have ever read.

As a father, the family side of the story really touched me as well.

If you have daughters, or daughters who love sports like mine, this is the BEST book I have seen for them.

The main character is one tough cookie, and her guts, spirit and determination are inspirational to all girls !

Because the hockey action is soooo good, even my 13 year old son wants to read the book now.

If you have middle age kids who love books about sports or just books about being a middle school kid ( the conversations these kids have are hilarious ), THIS BOOK IS A MUST HAVE !

I thought this would be a sports novel, but it really isn't. The cover is so misleading. The main character spends more time at the nursing home and her home helping take care of her grandfather than she does any place else. Although a good read, girl over comes the odds, it was not the book I expected it to be. I kept thinking where is the hockey, where is her mentor? It left me feeling flat.

My 8 year old daughter is really into hockey, so I thought a book about a girl trying to make the boys hockey team would be great. The review by TWA clinched it. I read the book to my girl and it was a major disappointment. First, there is exactly 1 hockey game in the entire book. The face-off is on p. 64 and the buzzer sounds on p. 70. The rest of the book is about the boring and uninspiring school life of Joanna Giordano, a girl who has no interests outside of hockey. There is not even a single subject at school that she cares about and she doesn't pay attention in class. A girl named Taryn does her all sorts of favors, which she doesn't appreciate or reciprocate. The two dad's (hers and her unfaithful companion Ben) are psychopaths who are aggressive beyond belief. There are seedy segments (for a young girl at least) with the toga falling off of a busty cheerleader and revealing all in the class play, and the class clown taking advantage of a substitute teacher brought in to teach the climactic segment in the sex education class. If you want a free copy check the landfills. I threw mine away.

Christmas gift for my 9 yr old grandaughter. She hasn't received it yet but I'm sure she'll love it. It's difficult to find Hockey books for girls!!!