Strikers: A Graphic Novel

by Kiel Phegley (Author) Jacques Khouri (Illustrator)

Strikers: A Graphic Novel
Reading Level: 6th − 7th Grade

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.

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Kirkus

Persistence in the face of defeat and disappointment defines a season of sports and adolescent life.

Publisher's Weekly

As the team bonds on and off the ice . . . they find support and stability in their relationships with one another while striving to get that elusive W.

ALA/Booklist

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.

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Kiel Phegley
Kiel Phegley is the author of several titles for Penguin Young Readers Licenses, including Sonic the Hedgehog: The Official Movie Novelization, Sonic the Hedgehog's Race Against Chaos Sticker Activity Book, and Sonic and the Tales of Terror.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9798765607466
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Graphic Universe (Tm)
Publication date
October 20, 2023
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV016150 - Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 20th Century
JUV039020 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Adolescence
JUV032110 - Juvenile Fiction | Sports & Recreation | Hockey
Library of Congress categories
Graphic novels
Teamwork (Sports)
Cartoons and comics
Hockey
Sports comics
Perseverance

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