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Picks and Sticks

by Michèle Muzzi
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In the aftermath of the 1972 Canada-Soviet Summit Series, Jane, a teen figure skating sensation who lives in Parry Sound, Ontario, befriends a defecting Russian hockey coach, Ivan Stepanov, and his mysterious daughter, Irina. To the alarm of her mother, Deb, Jane's interaction with the Stepanovs puts her promising skating career in limbo, while reawakening her long-lost love of hockey—a sport she and her brother, Mike, learned as young children from their father, Bud, a semi-professional hockey player before his tragic death. For Jane, the original pond where Bud taught her and Mike to play becomes as much an emotional battleground as a circle of strength. Jane's coach, Leonard, Deb's former pairs' skating partner—whose own hopes of glory were dashed years before—is driven to become a world-class coach through his protégé. But when Jane and the Stepanovs' effort to form a clandestine female hockey team is discovered, Jane's mother can't bear it, her coach can't take it, and her hockey-mad town will never be the same.

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Publisher: General Store Publishing House

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  • ISBN: 9781771231305
  • Release date: February 14, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781771231305
  • File size: 787 KB
  • Release date: February 14, 2014

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Juvenile Fiction Literature

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English

In the aftermath of the 1972 Canada-Soviet Summit Series, Jane, a teen figure skating sensation who lives in Parry Sound, Ontario, befriends a defecting Russian hockey coach, Ivan Stepanov, and his mysterious daughter, Irina. To the alarm of her mother, Deb, Jane's interaction with the Stepanovs puts her promising skating career in limbo, while reawakening her long-lost love of hockey—a sport she and her brother, Mike, learned as young children from their father, Bud, a semi-professional hockey player before his tragic death. For Jane, the original pond where Bud taught her and Mike to play becomes as much an emotional battleground as a circle of strength. Jane's coach, Leonard, Deb's former pairs' skating partner—whose own hopes of glory were dashed years before—is driven to become a world-class coach through his protégé. But when Jane and the Stepanovs' effort to form a clandestine female hockey team is discovered, Jane's mother can't bear it, her coach can't take it, and her hockey-mad town will never be the same.

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Juvenile Fiction Literature