Undergrounders
Record details
- ISBN: 9781443107280 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 144310728X (trade pbk.)
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Physical Description:
print
194 p. ; 20 cm. - Publisher: Toronto : Scholastic Canada, c2011.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Feb 11 |
Awards Note: | Nominated for the 2012 Silver Birch award. |
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Subject: | Homelessness -- Fiction Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award Nominees 2013 MYRCA 2013 Mothers -- Fiction Death -- Fiction |
Genre: | Sports stories, Juvenile. Canadian fiction, Juvenile. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Prince Rupert Library | J Skuy (Text) | 33294001795756 | Juvenile Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
"Can playing hockey help a street kid get his life back? After his mom dies, and the landlord kicks him out, 12-year-old Jonathon faces the loneliness and danger of life on the streets -- until he meets Lewis. Lewis takes him under his wing and leads him to his new home among a group of kids living in an abandoned underground shopping mall who call themselves the 'Undergrounders.' Now renamed 'Mouse,' Jonathon runs errands, delivers packages and panhandles for food money. An escape from this life underground comes to him in the form of hockey gear. Stolen hockey gear, but hockey gear nonetheless. He suits up and heads to the community rink, where he befriends regular kids who welcome him into their game and onto their team. He agrees, knowing he can never tell them about being homeless. Playing hockey makes him feel like a kid again, but keeping his double life a secret proves to be more difficult and dangerous than he ever could have imagined." --From the publisher.