Bad Calls

<p><strong style=color: rgba(77 77 77 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>Sam the Hockey Player (Peewee #2)</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(77 77 77 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Eleven-year-old Sam Parker is a hockey player who has always had fun playing the game. But that was before a bully at school starts hounding him. To make matters worse even the refs seem to have it in for him making a series of </span><strong style=color: rgba(77 77 77 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>bad calls</strong><span style=color: rgba(77 77 77 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> that costs his team a game.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(77 77 77 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Flustered by the constant hassle from the bully and his gang. and frustrated with the way things are going on the ice Sam decides to take things into his own hands to solve both problems. His choices only make things worse and his troubles seem to pile up. Worse yet no one seems to understand - not his teachers not his parents and not even his best friend Jill.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(77 77 77 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Sam will have to figure out how to solve this problem and learn how to deal with frustrating and unfair events - both on and off the ice.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(77 77 77 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Play through it.</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(77 77 77 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Life is hockey. Hockey is life. </em></p><p><br></p><p><em>(The Peewee series has been often cited by parents of reluctant readers particularly boys as having got them reading)</em></p>