A Junior Library Guild Selection

Holland Delviss has played hockey on boys’ teams since she was little — growing up with three hockey-playing brothers, it was what she was used to. That didn’t change even when she got to high school, where a girls’ team already existed. By her sophomore year, she’d earned a spot on her school’s varsity boys’ hockey roster...a spot a few naysayers in her town were insistent didn’t belong to her, despite the acceptance of her teammates.

In the middle of Holland’s junior season, her high school team is selected to be one of the five host cities for Minnesota’s annual HockeyFest, a state-wide event that attracts college and NHL scouts alike to the stands of teams that have traditionally flown under the radar. As the spotlight turns to Halcyon Lake, the focus is drawn away from the team and the town and onto the sole girl on the roster. Holland now has to juggle her time on the ice, her growing feelings for one of her teammates, and her writing career while shouldering the constant barrage of criticism and the burden of winning her team a spot on the national HockeyFest broadcast.

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