XRookie

by Lorna Schultz Nicholson

Overview

Fresh off the plane from Vancouver, sixteen-year-old hockey player Aaron Wong is excited to be starting his first year at Podium, the Calgary school for top teen athletes. Aaron has to make friends and fit in at a new high school, while also adjusting to a new home and a family with a different culture than his own. Luckily, he finds a tight-knit group of friends who are elite athletes in their own sports to help show him the ropes.

Things seem to be going well for the rookie - but the hockey team captain has it in for him. Aaron's world is turned upside down when the captain makes him the target of a brutal hazing at the team's first party. To turn his year around, Aaron has to overcome his embarrassment about the incident and confide in friends and coaching staff.

LORNA SCHULTZ NICHOLSON has published more than a dozen sports novels for tweens as well as hockey non-fiction for adults. Her books have been chosen as Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice/Best Bets selections and shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Young Reader's Choice Diamond Willow Award and the Golden Eagle Children's Choice Book Award.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781459400269
Publisher:	James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Publication date:	03/14/2012
Series:	Lorimer Podium Sports Academy Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
Lexile:	HL590L (what's this?)
File size:	341 KB
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

LORNA SCHULTZ NICHOLSON has written, produced, and hosted programs for television and radio, and is well known in Western Canada for her print journalism, including sports writing. She is now a full-time fiction author who works from her home in Calgary, which she shares with her husband, senior hockey official Bob Nicholson, and three children.
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