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About Face-Off
Product Description Brothers battle on and off the ice in this action-packed young adult sports novel. It's head-to-head, skate-to-skate, winner takes all! T.J. has gotten himself out of the fancy prep school his father picked for him and into the public high school his twin brother Brad attends. Now T.J. is a shining new star on the hockey team where Brad once held the spotlight. And he's testing his popularity with Brad's friends, eyeing Brad's girl and competing to be captain of the team. Meanwhile, the boys also grapple with problems at home, including divorcing parents and a troubled younger brother. The whole school is rooting for a big double-strength win...not knowing that their twin ice hockey stars are heating up the ice for a winner takes all face-off. Acclaim for Face-Off Stacy Juba published the first Hockey Rivals novel, Face-Off, when she was a teenager and wrote the newly released sequel, Offsides, twenty-five years later. Both books can also be read as standalones. Discover why this compelling teen book about hockey players, sportsmanship, and family has appeared on so many reading lists including Best Books for Young Teen Readers Grades 7-10 and a list produced by the Hockey Hall of Fame's Junior Education Program. Pick up your copies of Face-Off and Offsides for the young sports fan in your life and score a goal for reading. Review Hockey fans will be attracted by the cover and held by the game descriptions, and those who like realistic fiction will appreciate the complexity of the boys' home life, with battling parents, worshipping younger siblings and a father who expects too little of one twin and too much of the other. A good read for both proficient and reluctant readers. Booklist Lots of action and emotional upheaval ensure that this will be a popular book for boys as well as girls. This reviewer's YA Book Review Group gave it nine points out of a possible ten for 'Good Read' status. VOYA From the Author Face-Off was originally published under my maiden name, Stacy Drumtra, when I was 18 years old. I wrote the manuscript when I was 16, scribbling away in my high school study halls. I remember showing the pages to one of my best friends. She got engrossed in the story and asked me for new pages every day, inspiring me to write more. We both sensed that I was onto something with this tale of the feuding McKendrick twins and their mutual love of hockey. I received a publishing contract for Face-Off during my freshman year in college and the book was on its way to becoming a hockey classic. It received positive reviews from all of the top review publications, showed up on many reading lists, and generated lots of fan mail from the kids whose lives it had touched. I love to get letters like this: "Much to my dismay, my 6th grade hockey player doesn't care for reading. We gave him your "Face Off" book at Christmas and he loved it! Thank you for helping to contribute to my efforts to show him that reading can be fun!! - Kristin in Connecticut "I read your book, Face-Off, and it was one of the best books I've ever read. It has a lot of description and details...I also thought it was interesting the way you made me feel like I was in the book the way you described the school. You write some of the best books I've read in my life." - Daniel from Connecticut The original edition of Face-Off went out-of-print, but I wanted to bring it back for a new generation of readers. And I'm super excited that the sequel Offsides, written 25 years later, is now available! I hope you enjoy reading the Hockey Rivals books as much as I loved writing them. About the Author Stacy Juba got engaged at Epcot Theme Park and spent part of her honeymoon at Disneyland Paris, where she ate a burger, went on fast rides, and threw up on the train ride to the hotel. In addition to working on her Storybook Valley chick lit/sweet romance series, set at a theme park, Stacy has written books about ice hockey, teen psychics,
