Jake is a short fast hockey player, he has short blond spikey hair he's a bully to people he thinks are better then him.Zan is a bully and doesn’t take anything from anyone. Zan: zan is a good hockey player, he is atall built guy with long black curly hair.Author pageĬharlie Joyce: Charlie has blond hair blue eyes and is 15 years of age, he dresses like a normal boy and is good at hockey What he remembers most is the intensity, the competitiveness, and the sheer enjoyment of playing a sport you love when you're young. He spent most of his childhood playing some sport or another.

David Skuy is a lawyer, a writer and a Leafs fan to the core.

Other books he wrote are “Of The Crossbar, Rebel Powerplay, Double shift and Undergrounders,.

Interesting facts: David Skuy has written 4 other books leading to this one. Scholastic also offers a sample passage on their website.Making the cut Genre:Sorts, fiction Setting: hockey Auther: David Skuy Pages:240 My name: Treston Bindle What he remembers most is the intensity, the competitiveness, and the sheer enjoyment of playing a sport you love when you’re young. 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.ĭavid Skuy is a lawyer, a writer and a Leafs fan to the core. He agrees, knowing he can never tell them about being homeless. He suits up and heads to the community rink, where he befriends regular kids who welcome him into their game and onto their team. Stolen hockey gear, but hockey gear nonetheless. An escape from this life underground comes to him in the form of hockey gear. 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,' Jonathan runs errands, delivers packages and panhandles for food money. Here's more from the publisher, Scholastic:Ĭan playing hockey help a street kid get his life back? After his mom dies, and the landlord kicks him out, 12-year-old Jonathan faces the loneliness and danger of life on the streets - until he meets Lewis. David Skuy is back with another hockey themed young adult novel, Undergrounders.

Undergrounders by David Skuy