A heart-warming, intergenerational story about an awkward young boy who finds his hockey chutzpah at a PeeWee tournament. Tommy goes from timid observer to essential player - as we readers cheer him on! Illustrated by Zachary Pullen whose inimitable style blends perfectly with Zachary Hyman's inspiring text.

What do you do when your hockey luck runs out? It's a new season for the Glenlake Hawks. It seems everyone but Tom has a hockey superstition or good luck charm. Mark eats pizza before a game; Harty dresses in a certain order; Stuart wears NHL Band-Aids and Jordan never washes his socks. Even Dad has a superstition: not shaving when the Calgary Flames play. Tom is in a funk because he doesn't have his old jersey, number 15, which brought him his good luck in the past. Now he wears number 5 and it is giving him bad luck, including no goals. Tom and his friends set out to find him a new good luck charm, but nothing seems to work! Is Tom stuck being unlucky? Or does luck have nothing to do with it?

Kenyan orphans, Kitoo and Nigosi, spend their days studying, playing soccer, helping their elders with chores around the orphanage and reading from the limited selection of books in their library. When the librarian gives Kitoo a copy of Sports Around the World he becomes fascinated by an image of the Canadian national men's ice hockey team. Then one day the fates align and Kitoo finds a pair of beat up old roller blades, he teaches himself to skate and dreams of one day playing hockey like the men in his book. But you can't play ice hockey in Kenya, can you?

Reviews of earlier editions: Action shots and formatted with the brightness and gloss of a magazine, this book will be interesting reading for hockey fans. -- Booklist This is a fantastic book for teachers and students alike. It is written in an informative and easy-to-read style and is a definite must-have for any library or classroom. -- Resource Links The greatest players in the NHL... NOW! The Hockey Now! franchise has been thrilling hockey fans for over two decades, and this new eleventh edition will take them rinkside and delight them like no other hockey book. Updated in time for the 2022-23 season, Hockey Now! provides fast-paced and strikingly illustrated profiles of over 65 of the best and brightest of the NHL. Here are just a few of the players featured in Hockey Now! Connor McDavid (Edmonton Oilers) Sidney Crosby (Pittsburgh Penguins) Auston Matthews (Toronto Maple Leafs) Alex Ovechkin (Washington Capitals) Nikita Kucherov (Tampa Bay Lightning) Nathan McKinnon (Colorado Avalanche) Drew Doughty (Los Angeles Kings) Marc-André Fleury (Chicago Blackhawks) Victor Hedman (Tampa Bay Lightning). Author Mike Ryan has selected first and second All-Star teams as well as the Black Aces and Milestone Makers for each division (Atlantic, Metropolitan, Central and Pacific), paying special attention to the league's youth movement. Hockey Now! is the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the stars of today's fast-paced NHL and the ideal choice for all fans.

Re-imagined and re-designed for a modern spin on your favorite book covering the greatest players in the NHL... NOW! Brand new for 2017, the latest edition of Hockey Now! continues to provide fast-paced, up-to-date and strikingly illustrated profiles of the best and brightest the NHL has to offer. In its ninth edition, Hockey Now! is still the most insightful and well-designed book on the players suiting up in the NHL today. Author Mike Ryan has paid special attention to the league's youth movement and has selected first and second All-Star teams, as well as the Black Aces and Milestone Makers, for each division. That means this book is jam-packed with more than 65 profiles and 140 colorful action photos! Here are just a few of the NHL stars in Hockey Now!: Connor McDavid Sidney Crosby Steve Stamkos Jonathan Toews Carey Price Evgeni Malkin Claude Giroux Tyler Seguin Pekka Rinne Erik Karlsson P.K. Subban Auston Mathews And many more... Hockey Now! is the most comprehensive guide to the stars of today's fast-paced NHL!

Learn the science behind what makes hockey so great! Ever wonder why hockey players tape their sticks? Or why they freeze pucks before a game (they do, you know)? From how pucks slide, to why sticks break, and which angle will get the puck where you want it to go, Hockey Science is a fun exploration of the science behind the great sport of hockey. Join mad scientists Shar Levine and Leslie Johnstone, the creators of Scary Science and Snowy Science, as they go behind-the-scenes of our country's favourite sport with their usual sense of humour and wonder. Each page is full of fun experiments that budding hockey players can try on their own - on or off the ice!

As Stompin Tom Connors sings, It s the good old hockey game, the best game you can name. And in this charmingly illustrated book for all ages, the classic song played at hockey games around the world is imagined as a shinny game on an outdoor rink in the middle of the city that starts with two players and soon grows to include the whole community. The puck is in! The hometown wins! The good ol hockey game. "

A very special group of kids must save the world with - what else? - HOCKEY! Meet six kids a lot like you. Except . . . . . . Benny, Jenny, Karl, Starlight, DJ and Mo got zapped in an evil plot gone wrong -- and they became the super-est team the world has ever seen. Lucky thing, because they have to face off against their toughest foe yet -- a hockey-loving, nuclear . . . BUNNY! Yep, a Sizematron-enhanced gigantic (and gigantically evil) rabbit. Can they use their hockey superpowers to overpower the power-hungry bunny? Find out in this third action-packed, laugh-a-minute book in the Hockey Super Six series. Short chapters packed with action and jokes keep kids gripped, and wondering how the Super Six will win the day. Loads of images and cartoons mixed in with the text keep the read light and fun.

Will the Hockey Super Six thwart their enemy's plans for world domination in book two of this action-packed series? In the second book pitting six ordinary kids with super hockey skills against the forces of evil, Jenny, Benny, Mo, Starlight, DJ and Karl desperately need to stay out of Crosscheck's grasp! Their last run-in revealed to evil scientist (and former mediocre goalie) Clarence Crosscheck the scope of some of their secret powers -- powers he can use in his never-ending quest for world domination. Hard at work on a robot army to do his bidding, Crosscheck underestimates how strong the Super Six can be when they work together as a team. Get ready for high-stakes ice battles, non-stop hijinks and never-before-seen hockey action (it's kids vs robots, and some giant lizards too)!

A special group of kids must save the world with -- what else? -- HOCKEY! There are people out there, nasty mean greedy people, who want to rule the Earth. People such as evil scientist (and former mediocre goalie) Clarence Crosscheck. Only one thing is stopping them . . . hockey. This hilarious new high-action series from Kevin Sylvester pits six ordinary kids with super hockey skills against the forces of evil -- specifically, the nefarious wannabe genius, Clarence Crosscheck. In The Puck Drops Here, Jenny, Benny, Mo, Starlight, DJ and Karl need to outmaneuver Crosscheck and his army of mammoth mutant ice squids before Crosscheck turns his giant freeze ray on the world. The entire planet is at risk! Get ready for high-stakes ice battles, non-stop hijinks and never-before-seen hockey action (it's kids vs squids)! With fast-paced text and illustrations throughout, this series will grip sports fans and funny story lovers alike. Will the kids win the day? You'll have to read the books to find out . . .

A very special group of kids must save the world with -- what else? -- HOCKEY! Meet six kids a lot like you. Except . . . . . . Benny, Jenny, Karl, Starlight, DJ and Mo got zapped in an evil plot gone wrong -- and became the super-est team the world has ever seen. Lucky thing, because they have to face off against enormous, multi-appendaged, hockey-playing tardigrades IN SPACE! Turns out the last of the Sizematrons was not destroyed in the Six-versus-evil-bunny saga of Hat Tricked. And now very enhanced giant tardigrades working for astronaut-turned-evil-scientist Richard threaten the world with an asteroid that would end it all. Can the Super Six use their hockey superpowers to thwart the baddies? Find out in this fourth action-packed, laugh-a-minute book in the Hockey Super Six series.

Benny, Jenny, Karl, Starlight, DJ and Mo got zapped in an evil plot gone wrong -- and they became the super-est team the world has ever seen. Lucky thing, because this time the Six face their toughest challenge yet -- all their worst foes have joined together to defeat them once and for all. Thanks to Slapper and Clarence Crosscheck, the Six see their reputation ripped to shreds. And then it gets worse -- their powers are stripped away. Their only chance at redemption is a final all-or-nothing hockey game against the GANG. But without all their superpowers, how can they match up? Maybe their true skills were their teamwork and friendship all along? Better hope so . . . The fate of the world, and more importantly hockey, hang in the balance.

Discover today's greatest hockey stars! For over 30 years, kids (and their parents) have looked forward to Paul Romanuk's annual Hockey Superstars books! Seventeen of the NHL's superstars are profiled, with full-colour photos, bios, previous-season stats, and pull-out interview quotes. Hockey Superstars also includes fill-in pages for season stats and a Countdown to the Cup playoff bracket, referee signals, awards, top draft picks and more! It's a must-have for any hockey fan heading into the next exciting season! The 2020-2021 edition features: Carey Price, Montreal Rasmus Andersson, Calgary Niklas Backstrom, Washington Brock Boeser, Vancouver Nikolaj Ehlers, Winnipeg Marc-Andre Fleury, Las Vegas Philip Grubauer, Colorado Victor Hedman, Tampa Bay Patrick Kane, Chicago Mitch Marner, Toronto Auston Matthews, Toronto Connor McDavid, Edmonton Darnell Nurse, Edmonton Mark Scheifele, Winnipeg Tim Stützle, Ottawa Andrei Vasilevskiy, Tampa Bay Shea Weber, Montreal

What do you do when the star player hogs the puck? The Glenlake Hawks are gearing up for a big game against the Grey Wolves, a fearsome team with an unbeatable goalie. Luckily for the Hawks, Sam is a star on the ice, leading the team in goals. But when Sam's poor sportsmanship and bad attitude start to affect the rest of the players, Tom has to find a way to get everyone back to playing like a team.

The stories of five real hockey heroes who overcame challenges to play the game they love at the highest possible level! This inspiring book profiles hockey players whose talent and determination eventually broke down barriers in hockey and opened doors and the generations that followed. Readers will learn about: Will O'Ree, who challenged racial barriers as the first black player in the NHL. George Armstrong, the first aboriginal player to make it big in the NHL, played 11 seasons as the Captain of the Maple Leafs, and proved his talent many times over. Bobby Clarke was the first player with diabetes to play in the NHL. Knowing his place in hockey history now, it is laughable to htink he was dismissed as "too fragile" to play the game. Manon Rhéaume, the first woman to play pro hockey. Larry Kwong, the first Chinese-Canadian in the league. This fascinating book includes photos of all the players and sidebars about others they inspired, including Jarome Iginla, Hayley Wickenheiser and Jordan Tootoo. It encourages young fans to consider hockey, and the meaning of determination, from a whole new perspective.