FIELD FIELD FIELD

Take a field hockey team, add some witchcraft, and stir in teenage angst. Boom, you've got We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry!

But that doesn't even begin to account for the representation in this book, the thrilling narrative of the Danvers Falcons' field hockey squad as they try to reach the state finals, the history both of the 1980's and of the Salem Witch Trials... I'm in love. It takes a lot for me to read a historical fiction novel, though admittedly I wouldn't willingly classify this novel as that. If you love coming of age stories, imagine if you got 10 different coming of age stories! Wowee.

Also I'd venture to say that I will never look at Emilio Estevez in the same way. And also...

HOCKEY HOCKEY HOCKEY