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Rocket Blues

  • ISBN 9781443133753, Paperback
  • 240 Pages | Ages 9 to 12
When Rocket gets cut from his AAA bantam hockey team, he needs to re-evaluate his priorities.

Bryan Rockwood (aka "Rocket") is faced with the unthinkable: being cut from the Huskies — the AAA hockey team he has played on for three years. With no other teams interested in him, Bryan reluctantly joins a AA team, the Blues, at his best friend Maddy's insistence.

Things only get worse when Rocket sees that the Blues don't take hockey seriously. Facing the Huskies in the round robin will give Rocket the chance to prove his skills, but in order to keep his hockey dreams (and his friends) Rocket will have to realize that while hockey is his passion, it is not his entire life.

Rights Sold

French World – Éditions Hurtubise

Awards

  • Winner, Rocky Mountain Book Award (Alberta Children's Choice), 2016
  • Short-listed, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2016
  • Short-listed, OLA Silver Birch Award, Fiction, 2016
  • Short-listed, Snow Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2015
  • Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2015