In Flint, Michigan, 1986, hockey--and life--keep handing Evan and Bobby losses, but together, they find reasons to keep taking the ice.
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Summary
In Flint, Michigan, 1986, hockey--and life--keep handing Evan and Bobby losses, but together, they find reasons to keep taking the ice.
Description
Evan just wants to win a game. Bobby would rather fight than win.
Hockey—and life—keep handing them both losses. Their team, the Strikers, has a roster of rejects in hand-me-down coats but lacks good equipment, a deep bench, and a coach who shows up on time. Their town of Flint, Michigan, has been down on its luck their whole lives.
The boys may not understand each other, but together, they’ll find their reasons to keep taking the ice.
Strikers is a hilarious, hard hitting, and moving story about how to stay on your skates when you only see L’s in your future.
Critic Reviews
"While the story spends a lot of time on the ice with both games and practice, the interpersonal relationships, razzing, and camaraderie among the characters draw more attention. . . Readers who like their sports comics with both lots of action and vivid emotional dynamics are the best audience for this." — Booklist
About the Author
Kiel Phegley is the author of over a dozen books for young readers. His work includes stories and comics starring popular characters like Sonic The Hedgehog, The Amazing World of Gumball and Halo. Strikers is inspired in part by his youth in and around Flint, Michigan where he read too many comics and played on a variety of sports teams poorly. A graduate of Hamline University's MFA in Writing for Children, Phegley lives with his family in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he is a lecturer on Children's Literature at Eastern Michigan University. Jacques Khouri makes animated films, works on commercials, teaches, and draws comics for a living. His influences range from animated cartoons to European and American comics. He currently lives in Montreal. You can find his work at ijotalot.com and jackkhouri.com. Please follow him on Tumblr or Instagram at @ijotalot.
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