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Synopsis
A.J. Brandiosa becomes the bad boy of the Cyclone hockey team, and learns that his best friend is gay, as he tries to cope with his own sexuality during his senior year in high school.
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About the Author
Diana Wieler is the winner of the Governor General's Award, the Mr. Christie's Book Award, the Canadian Library Association's Young Adult Canadian Book Award and the Ruth Schwartz Award. Her most recent book, Drive, won the McNally Robinson Award. She lives in Winnipeg.
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Grade 8-12-- After he and his best friend, Tulsa Brown, are selected for the high school ice hockey team, 16-year-old A. J. Brandiosa is suddenly confronted with a multitude of crises. With his coach's encouragement, he becomes an ``enforcer''--someone whose main job is to make cheap, violent hits against opposing players. While the boy comes to terms with his new role, he discovers that Tulsa is gay. To further complicate his life, his secret crush on Tulsa's sister becomes public just as his friendship with Tulsa is deteriorating. In addition, his father brings home a female friend who is closer in age to A. J. As the boy works through his confusion and pain, he clarifies his own relationships, eventually emerging as a winner on all counts. The fast-paced hockey action is only a backdrop to the off-rink clashes that are told by an omniscient narrator who leaves little to the imagination regarding what the protagonists are thinking and doing; this helps clarify any uncertainty about plot or character, but it also increases the story's predictability. Important questions are raised about homosexuality, high school sports, single parents, and male sexism. This is an issue-laden story that is rescued by the carefully delineated main characters, although more discriminating readers might be dubious about how neatly the conflicts are resolved. --Jack Forman, Mesa College Library, San Diego
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- PublisherGroundwood Books
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0888990839
- ISBN 13 9780888990839
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages191
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