Field hockey books for young adults (pre-teen and up)...
Field hockey books for young adults (pre-teen and up)...
The Not-So-Uniform Life of Holly-Mei is a wonderfully warm-hearted, gently humorous story of navigating friendships, of self-discovery and of finding your way in a new place.
12-year-old Holly-Mei is attending summer camp, but she has been rejected by her friends after her keen sense of fairness gets her blamed not only for the cancellation of their end-of-year pizza party, but also for losing them the field hockey game. When her parents tell her that the family are moving to Hong Kong as her mother has got a promotion, she is at first reluctant to leave her friends, despite their falling out.
For 8 to 12-year-old readers.
A ninth grade hockey player finds an enemy in a place she loves, love in the place she dreads. Both challenge her to survive and thrive in her freshman season.
For 11 to 14-year-old readers.
Morgan is growing up on Cherry Lane in Silicon Valley where everybody's father is an engineer and their mother has expectations about who and what their daughters should be. Morgan doesn't feel like she can live up to her mother's expectations as she is not a girlie girl. When she meets Suzy, the neighborhood tomboy, she realizes there's another path. This coming of age tale is engaging, emotional and identifiable. It will make you long for a time before cell phones when getting around on a bicycle meant freedom and hanging out down by the creek after field hockey practice was best of the week. You'll fall in love with The Tomboys of Cherry Lane, and may even be a bit heartbroken about how quickly perspectives and people can change -- and how fast time goes by.
For 12 to 14-year-old readers.
Field hockey books for young adults (16 and up)...
She’s the girl next door with a killer secret! Alexandra “Alex” Davis is everything a college freshman should be:
Top of her class. Star of the field hockey and lacrosse team. Smiles that melt professors and win over parents. She volunteers on Sundays, babysits on Fridays, and never, ever, misses family dinner. But when she catches her boyfriend cheating, one moonlit push off a lakeside cliff turns Alex from sweetheart to something sharper.
Perfect for fans of Killing Eve, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, and every pretty lie that ends in blood.
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