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Ice Magic (Matt Christopher Sports Series)

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This story is about a boy named Pie Pennelli. He play's icehockey and he's been having troubles with one of his team mates. Piewas always being picked on by a kid named Terry Mason. He would always make fun of Pie because his skates were so big and the usual stuff in sports. But then it all started when Pie's next door neighbors had found an antique hockey game. The kids swore the the wooden antique hockey game was "magic". The "magic" was that when ever you would play the game, the same thing would happen in Pie's actual hockey game. That meant Pie new everything that was going to happen in the hockey game. But something not so great happens in the toy hockey game, Uh oh?

Pie Pennelli's hand-me-down skated are to big for him, he always falls down in his games!! To make matters worse, one of his teammates always teases him. But trouble really starts to stirr up when his neighbors claim their toy hockey game can predetermine Pie's every move on the ice!!! WHAT can happen next? Find out when you read ICE MAGIC.
I've read alot of hockey books, but this one is at the top of the line.

I never liked reading till I saw your book . P.s.hockey is my favorite sport. By Barrett Leganchuk

Ice Magic is a book about Pie Pennelli who plays hockey, but has oversized skates. Terry Mason is his other problem because when he falls on the ice, and misses a play Terry Mason always yells at him. His nieghbors found this toy hockey that they think is magic because whenever they play the game that is what happens in Pie's real game the next day. Terry teases Pie about how they think that the toy hockey game is magic. In the last couple of toy hockey games bad things are going to happen to Pie. In his last game of the season Pie's neighbors warn him that the second period is going to be bad. In the second period Pie's skates fall apart, and Terry's cat jumps onto the ice in the second period. When Pie's neighbors found the toy hockey game, a note was attached to it that said," Beware what happens on a real rink first, Repeats here not, for fate, Promises that, as true as bubbles burst, The magic will dissipate" which that whatever happens on a real rink first it will happen on this rink too, and then the magic will be gone. When Terry came over to the twins house he brought his cat and the cat jumped onto the toy hockey game, and that was the sign that the magic was now gone. by Aaron Havard

This is a cool book.This book is about hockey.It is about a kid named Pie and has these two twins as frieds.The twins have a toy hockey game.Whem they play the game a night before the real game it turns out exactaly the same.The real game is on Saturday morings.There is this bully in the book that always bugs Pie when their playing hockey.I would reccomend this book to someone that likes hockey.

I think the book Ice Magic was a great book because hockey and magic in one book is an extremely smart idea. My three favorite things are hockey and magic and reading, so I knew the book Ice Magic was right for me just by looking at the title.

This sports book by the prolific Christopher is a bit unusual in that it combines action in hockey with the uncertainty of magic. Pie Pennelli is a young hockey player with a problem; his skates are too large, slowing him down on the ice. His brother was a hockey player so he is wearing the skates that his brother used. Jody and Jolie are his friends and they have an indoor hockey game that is unusual. When they play it, the events of their game become the actual events of Pie's game.
While Pie has some moments on the ice, he also fails on occasion, facts always pointed out by his teammate Terry. Over time, the problems between Pie and Terry boil over, but they eventually patch things up and begin to play together outside the hockey arena. When Terry's cat wanders out on the ice during a game and then jumps on the indoor game, the magic spell is broken and there is no longer a correlation between what happens in the indoor game and on the ice.
This is not one of the better sports books by Matt Christopher; it is convoluted and occasionally disjointed. The combination of magic and hockey is not well integrated; everything is closed up at the end in a sudden manner without a climactic event or situation.

My name is Greg I read a book call Ice Magic it was about hockey and kid name pie and hell like magic .he though a hockey game was magic. Also what happen in his toy game will happen in pie hockey game .A kid on pie team all ways made fun of him .his team was ok but they lost a of game by one point .at the end of the book the kid that would make fun of hi becomes his friend. I like this book because it about hockey and I like to play hockey.

Dan, 6th grader in Maine

Matt Christopher's Ice Magic is about Pie Pennelli and a magic hockey game his friends find in there basement.
This is a exciting book that i would recommend to kids 8 to 10. I give this book 3 stars because I think it is for younger readers. It was still a pretty good book to read, but it was a very easy book to read.
I would read another one of Matt Christophers books but I would look for a more challenging book from this author.

Ice Magic is about a boy named Pie Panneli. He is getting teased by a boy named Terry Mason because he had oversize skates and couldn't skate very fast and Because he screwed up a cuple times. But one day his neighbors find an atiuqe hockey game and
sware that it predicts all pies games. The same goals the penalties even the same moves. But one day the neighbors couldn't
find the game. While they were looking pie saw Terry Mason spying
on him and the neibors because he heard that the game was magic
and also made fun of Pie and the neighbors because they believed
in Magic. When Pie came out of the neighbors house and saw Terry
he got scared because he might make fun of him. But when he came over with his cat he talked and teased him for a little bit his cat ran away. Terry was very scared because a car came by but he
missed the cat by an inch but the next car ran him over. Pie helped Terry to bring his cat to the hospital. The next day he went over to his neighbors house for a little bit. They found the hockey game and it was ready to play but when they played
the person that was him fell off. Pie went home. He was nervous
what would happen. When he went to the game he saw Terry. He asked how his cat was and Terry said he was fine. In the third
period the bad thing happend. But his skate broke and that was all. The next day he went to the store to buy new skates.