Line Change: Israel's A New Zone For Ethan

by Mark Lichtenfeld

Overview

Ethan Conners is a Chicago Jewish Academy senior who's also the toughest high school hockey defenseman in Illinois, and he's landed an NCAA scholarship to prove it. But Ethan never wanted Team USA to select him for the summer Maccabiah Games in Israel. Now, Ethan's forced to trade a lazy July and angry girlfriend for a shabby ice rink near Kiryat Shemona, and a maniacal coach programmed for victory at all costs. Ethan so wants to be done with this tournament and reclaim his social scene in Chicago. But everything changes when American privilege battles a rugged week of Israeli border town hardship. Now, Ethan's stressing over his cushy hockey scholarship, while his new Israeli peers face three-year stints defending the Jewish State. And when Ethan catches the eye of a sabra girl with shocking ties to Chicago, he's suddenly forced to choose between his dreamy, college free-ride, or the ultimate, Jewish line change.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148600749
Publisher:	MAZO PUBLISHERS
Publication date:	08/18/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	494 KB

About the Author

MARK LICHTENFELD LIVES IN Chicago’s suburban North Shore and is a member of the North Suburban, Illinois Chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. He is a licensed, USA Hockey and American Collegiate Hockey Association referee, and has officiated nearly five thousand games over the past twenty-three years. He writes a column for Rink Life, a Midwestern hockey newspaper, and has been featured in many other publications during his career. Mark and his family have traveled to Kiryat Shemona many times, and of course, he has skated at the Canada Centre.
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Editorial Reviews

Line Change tells an engaging story that speaks to Jewish teens of all stripes. The teenage years and the passage to adulthood is especially complex for Ethan Conners, a young man raised in both a religious tradition and on a pair of ice skates. It is enjoyable to follow the way the Mark Lichtenfeld ties all of the strands of the story together in a way that keeps the story moving, fresh, and with some neat surprises for the reader. As a former high school hockey player, I found the descrip

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