Illustration By Rick Lieder
Pub Date: Spring 2009
Price: $17.95
Jacketed Hard Cover
ISBN: 978-934813-01-0
Page Count: 228
Ages 14+
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WAITING TO SCORE
by J.E. MacLeod
Quirky, smart, and good looking, Zack Chase is a book-loving, talented hockey player. But he doesn't want to turn pro like his late dad, despite his mom's hopes. New in town, Zack's pitted against obnoxious Mac, the hockey team captain with something against Jane, the alluring Goth-girl who's caught Zack's eye. As incidents on the ice and off force Zack to decide what he really wants, he copes with sore losers, other people's drinking problems, and the consequences of making out with too many girls. As Zack focuses even less on hockey, he discovers other ways he wants to score in life, especially as a 15-year-old guy with spiking hormones. He's being chased by hot little Mona; his best friend Sheila has curves that make him sweat; and he'd like to show Jane that he's not another typical hockey player. Soon Zack finds out the hard way that people have secrets and burdens all their own, and that some actions have tragic, far-reaching consequences.
Read What Writers Are Saying About Waiting to Score:
"If I could be a teenager again, I think I'd be Zack Chase. His deep, deep soul makes him a winner. J.E. MacLeod's Waiting to Score doesn't have to wait. It scores."
—Daniel Ehrenhaft, author of Tell It to Naomi
"After only a few pages, I found myself completely immersed in Zack's world, as though I were actually witnessing the parties, the fights, the relationships, and, of course, the hockey games. Zack is a very real, unique, contemporary 15-year-old you won't soon forget. Waiting to Score is so much more than a sports story. It's page-turning action and character-testing drama to the very end."
—Nora Raleigh Baskin,
author of Basketball (or Something Like it)
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