Face-Off

by Matt Christopher

Book Overview

Although he loves the game, a young hockey player discovers he is handicapped, while playing by his fear of the puck This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316139947
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Length: 131 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.3" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Face Off (Matt Christopher)

The book face off is a sport book about hockey. A fast pace book about a kid named scott. Scott gets asked to play on a hockey team after winning a race against the golden bears captain's Del Stockten and Skinny Mckay. The golden bears are a very good team but they need a better defensemen,so scott becomes a defensemen.But when someone is about to shoot the puck scott gets scared and covers his eyes and face. The teams catch on to the puck shy and the starts to fake him out. Will he ever get over the fear of the puck.

He shoots, He scores

This book is one of the best hockey books I have ever read. It tells you about a boy that has never played hockey before, but is a really fast skater. He races against the fastest player on the Golden Bears hockey team and beats him. Scott is then invited to be on the team. With a lot of help and guidness, Scott becomes a very good player. In the book, there are some kids on the team that arn't very nice to Scott and that makes him feel unwanted. After about half way through the season, Scott chatches on to all the plays and becomes a good player and good friends with all the kids on the team that used to not be friends with him. I thought that this book was very fun to read, and it reminded me of when I was younger and played hockey but wasn't very good. But now I am a good player from all the practice I have had.

Wow! Wow! Wow!

I think this book is almost the best book I have read, because in my opinion Matt Christopher is my favorite author. It is about kids named Scott,Skinny,and Del. Del and Skinny are hockey players,and Del is the fastest player on the team. At the lake, Scott wins in a race against Del. So Scott tries out for the team and makes it. He does not know much about hockey, and he's afraid of the puck. So he never gets it so they always lose. Find out if the other hockey players ever accept him as a member of the team. I highly recommend it, because it shows me a little about old hockey.