A car accident injures her parents and paralyzes Janine from the waist down. Her best friend and teammate urges Janine to look into sledge hockey. At first dismissing the sport as being just for the disabled, Janine agrees to play if her friend does too. They both learn that sledge hockey is an acce
Man to Man (Lorimer Sports Stories)
โ Scribed by Bill Swan
- Publisher
- James Lorimer
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 6 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781552774434
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Michael O'Reilly is the shortest kid on the lacrosse team, and the youngest. He doesn't play rough, and everyone says he's not tough enough for the sport. When tension breaks out between teams and one team accuses the other of racist behavior, Michael realizes that he is tough after all -- he's the only one brave enough to speak the truth.
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