A Boy at the Leafs' Camp

by Scott Young

Scott Young's Hockey Series (3)

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For eighteen -and -a-half-year-old Bill Spunska, the jump from high school to the NHL was no bigger than the move he made from his native Poland. In two years he had learned to skate, shoot and pass. But now, as the youngest boy at the Toronto Maple Leafs' training camp, he has only two weeks to learn what it takes to be a pro.

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I read this book back in my youth and I was totally obsessed with it. I adored hockey and the Maple Leafs, so it was only fitting I picked it up. I don't remember how I came across it, but I read it over and over and over.

With all of this extra time on my hands, I've been cleaning my house. I recently came across a giant pile of books from my childhood and I figured I might as well thrown some reviews up and give them another read while I'm at it.

This is a great chapter book all about a boy who goes to a hockey camp. Bill is an athletic teen who gets invited to the training camp for the Toronto Maple Leafs and within two weeks he learns a lot. This book shows how competitive the hockey profession is but in a really nice, kid friendly show more light.

This is the third book in the series and I had no idea that it was when I initially read it. I would love to grab the first two books because I remember loving this book as a kid. I read it so much that my copy is in pretty bad shape.

I would say this book is definitely good for middle graders and up. It's a quick, light read and is very simplistic yet wonderfully addicting.

Four out of five stars.
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Canonical title
A Boy at the Leafs' Camp
Important places
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
First words
When Bill Spunska got off the bus with his dad's old brown suitcase, he stood there for a minute looking this way and that, wondering where he was to go next.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Not at all, all about hockey.

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Genres
Tween, Fiction and Literature, Children's Books, Kids
DDC/MDS
176Philosophy & psychologyEthicsEthics of sex and reproduction
LCC
PZ7 .Y879Language and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres
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Languages
English
Media
Paper
ISBNs
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