The Rink Rats

Author : Irene Punt,Ramón Pérez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Hockey stories
ISBN : 1443104426

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The Rink Rats by Irene Punt,Ramón Pérez Pdf

Tom gets his first lesson in responsibility when he and his team agree to tidy up an outdoor rink. It's a snowy February in Calgary, and the bumpy outdoor rink at Crescent Park needs a lot of work. Tom and his friends pledge to perfect it in time for the annual Family Day hockey game, and soon they get to work. But maintaining and improving a rink proves to be a lot of work for the boys: They are faced with repeated snowfalls, ice damage, illness, and poor performance in their hockey games, due to their weariness from all of the extra work! One day a tempting invitation creates a conflict with their work commitment, and now it's up to them -- to choose between honouring their pledge or watching their favourite NHL team in action. This charming chapter book is the fourth installment in Irene Punt's series featuring Tom and the Glenlake Hawks. With the fun backdrop of seasonal school activities and hockey games, she touches on the important themes of teamwork, conflict resolution, and acceptance of responsibility -- all with the cheerful, positive outlook of an average, everyday kid.

Author : Tom Russo
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439663745

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Chicago Rink Rats by Tom Russo Pdf

By 1950, roller skating had emerged as the number-one participatory sport in America. Ironically, the war years launched the Golden Age of Roller Skating. Soldiers serving overseas pleaded for skates along with their usual requests for cigarettes and letters from home. Stateside, skating uplifted morale and kept war factory workers exercising. By the end of the decade, five thousand rinks operated across the country. Its epicenter: Chicago! And no one was left behind! The Blink Bats, a group of Braille Center skaters, held their own at the huge Broadway Armory rink. Meanwhile, the Swank drew South Side crowds to its knee-action floor and stocked jukebox. Eighteen celebrated rinks are now gone, but rinks that remain honor the traditions of the sport's glory years. Author Tom Russo scoured newspaper archives and interviewed skaters of the roller capital's heyday to reveal the enduring legacy of Chicago's rink rats.

Author : Mike Tortorella
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1974504581

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Rink Rats by Mike Tortorella Pdf

'Mobie' Monaco, senior captain of his Division III college hockey team, the Milltown Muskrats, relates the 'typical' experiences of playing varsity sports in the 1990s. His sexual license goes beyond all rules. Captain and his teammates overindulge fearlessly in an age of plagues, yet find the experience more and more empty. Playing hockey is the ultimate thrill for Monaco and his friends. The team follows its captain on a perilous challenge to break every Commandment and commit every Deadly Sin. Like a great voyage, the story unfolds, revealing the sexual obsession and drug abuse of a group of rink rats that courts disaster. A shocking cautionary tale, the conflicts and victories of the final adult generation of the 20th century will challenge conventions of society with a climax of violence.

Author : Irene Punt
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10
Category : Fortune
ISBN : 9781443142786

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Hockey Luck by Irene Punt Pdf

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?

Author : Robert Munsch
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443148535

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Just One Goal! by Robert Munsch Pdf

At last — Canada's favourite storyteller takes on Canada's most beloved pastime! Ciara is tired of hauling her hockey gear across town to play on the rink. It makes no sense—there is a perfectly good frozen river in her own backyard! But her dad says it's too jagged, and her mom says it's too bumpy, and her older sisters don't see why she can't keep going all the way across town, just like they did. But Ciara won't let anybody stop her. And with a little help from the neighbourhood, she knows that her team, the River Rink Rats, will finally win a game on their own brand new rink. In classic Robert Munsch style, this warm fun story of community and hockey takes a hilarious turn. With the excitement and pace of a real hockey match, the River Rink Rats play their final game on their new rink. The pressure is on; the crowd is watching; Ciara has the puck; the crowd keeps watching; the ice starts to...CRACK!; Ciara keeps playing; the ice starts to drift; the crowd starts running; Ciara shoots to SCORE and— You can be sure that no matter how the game ends, there will be hot chocolate! This ebook features read-along narration by the author.

Author : Micahel Tortorella
Publisher : Lukeion Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1892183161

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Rink Rals by Micahel Tortorella Pdf

Author : Barbara Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1686565410

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A Christmas Tail with the Brooklyn Rink Rats by Barbara Williams Pdf

The Brooklyn Rink Rats is a fun children's story about a group of rats that live in Little Italy, New York. The thing that sets these rats apart from others is that they play ice hockey! Oh, and they talk, too! But there's a problem. The rink at which they play will soon be closed down unless a miracle happens. In addition to this, the Brooklyn Rink Rats must find a way to beat the Canadians in the championship game or they may never get another chance again.

Author : Irene Punt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1443175056

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Slap Shot!: Three Hockey Stories by Irene Punt Pdf

Hockey and friendship face off in three fast-paced, easy-to-read stories! Three hockey chapter books in one! Tom and his friends from the Glenlake Hawks hockey team tackle realistic issues that kids face, both on and off the ice. Whether it's Tom learning how to make good on a promise in The Rink Rats, to dealing with jealousy over a friend's hockey talent in Tryout Trouble, to worrying about whether his luck has run out in Hockey Luck, each story is packed with humour, heart and hockey fun!

Author : Irene Punt
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 9781443133456

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Tryout Trouble by Irene Punt Pdf

Tom and Harty both want to play for the Hawks, but will the competition ruin their friendship? Tom is excited when he learns that Harty, the boy he met at hockey camp in The Wicked Slapshot, has moved into the neighbourhood! That is, until Tom realizes that Harty will be competing with him for a spot on the Hawks -- and he seems to be winning over all of Tom's teammates. With tryouts looming, Tom starts to feel jealous. What if Harty makes the team and he doesn't? Will he be able to remain friends with Harty AND the guys? Tryout Trouble is an easy-to-read chapter book, perfect for emerging readers who are transitioning to chapter books.

Author : Irene Punt,Ken Steacy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Hockey referees
ISBN : 0545997658

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Hockey Rules! by Irene Punt,Ken Steacy Pdf

Tom is the envy of his friends. His teenage babysitter, Jeff, is totally cool -- he even plays road hockey. But things take a turn for the worse when Jeff becomes a ref and doesn't play favourites at a Hawks' hockey game. Jeff the Ref gives penalties and calls off goals; he plays by the rules. Things get out of hand when Tom and his friends fight back with mean chants and accidentally send Jeff a nasty e-mail. Tom comes to realize that it is better to play by the rules -- at home and on the ice.

Author : John Bacon
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Hockey teams
ISBN : 9780358533269

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Let Them Lead by John Bacon Pdf

"An uplifting and compelling leadership book based on the hard-earned lessons learned by the author when he was head coach of the Ann Arbor Huron High School ice hockey team, about how he motivated, engaged, and empowered his players to go from being ranked as the absolute worst team in the nation to one of the country's best"--

Author : Estelle Salata,Malcolm Collett
Publisher : Hamilton, Ont. : E. Salata
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Hockey stories
ISBN : 097344360X

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Mice at Centre Ice by Estelle Salata,Malcolm Collett Pdf

Author : Estelle Salata
Publisher : Independence, Ohio : Schoolhouse Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0808603116

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Mice at Center Ice by Estelle Salata Pdf

Benny the Bullet and his Mouse Hockey Leaguers seek to recover the stolen Cheddar Cup from the unscrupulous Rink Rats.

Author : Donald A. McKellar
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426942778

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Last of the Rinkrats and Other Stories by Donald A. McKellar Pdf

Do you consider yourself well-versed in Canadas history? Ever heard of Domagaya, the Laurentian Iroquois who saved Jacques Cartiers expedition to the New World by teaching him the cure for scurvy? Or Charles Lennox, the Governor-General who died from the bite of a pet fox? Theres the Chief Justice of Upper Canada kept a pet alligator in his historic home, and Constable Pedley of the Mounties, who transported a sick missionary hundreds of miles through the Northern Alberta wilderness to get medical help while putting his own life at risk. Learn about the American bankers yacht, the S.S. Ramona, which faithfully served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Battle of the Atlantic and ended her days plying the South Seas as a shrimp boat. All of these were true heroes of Canada. A collection of little-known tales of heroism from Canadas history, Last of the Rinkrats and Other Stories tells twenty-three unforgettable true stories of Canadas unsung heroes and forgotten characters.

Author : Adam Gopnik
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781541699359

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A Thousand Small Sanities by Adam Gopnik Pdf

A stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time from an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author. Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has produced a crisis of faith in liberal institutions and, even worse, in liberal thought. A Thousand Small Sanities is a manifesto rooted in the lives of people who invented and extended the liberal tradition. Taking us from Montaigne to Mill, and from Middlemarch to the civil rights movement, Adam Gopnik argues that liberalism is not a form of centrism, nor simply another word for free markets, nor merely a term denoting a set of rights. It is something far more ambitious: the search for radical change by humane measures. Gopnik shows us why liberalism is one of the great moral adventures in human history -- and why, in an age of autocracy, our lives may depend on its continuation.