Book Review: Hockey Wars by Sam Lawrence & Ben Jackson

 Hockey Wars

by

Sam Lawrence & Ben Jackson

Publisher: Indie Publishing Group 

 

Publication date: 12th September 2018

 

Genre: Middle Grade

 

Series: Hockey Wars #1 

 

Pages: 128

 

Format read: Paperback

 

Source: Courtesy of Author Services Australia 

 

My review of Hockey Wars

 

Hockey Wars is an enjoyable Middle-Grade read focusing on friendship and sportsmanship that is sure to leave the reader smiling.

 

Millie and Cameron have been life-long friends, attending the same school and playing on the same hockey team, but when Millie decides to start an all-girls team a rift begins to form in the friendship starting a rivalry between the boys and the girls.

 

I liked this fun story about a feud between the girls team, the Hurricanes, and the boys team, the Lightning, over who gets to use the practice pond after school.

In this first book we are introduced to the main characters, eight boys and eight girls in 4th Grade at Dakota Elementary School. It was good getting to know each characters' quirks and how they felt about the feud.

 

The story was fast paced and I was eager to find out how, or if, Cameron and Millie would become friends again.

 

Ice hockey is not a huge sport in Australia with many of our rinks closing over the years however the themes of co-ed sports and girls versus boys are relatable to any sport.

Being in the stands at ice hockey games for many years I understood and had a laugh at the hockey puns on the girls t-shirts.

 

Hockey Wars has relatable themes of competitiveness, friendship, first crushes, teamwork and having the courage to say you're sorry.

 

Recommended age 8+

 

My rating 5 / 5  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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About the authors 

 

Ben Jackson was born in Tasmania, Australia, and is a successful indie author that has been writing for over four years. Ben is married to Sam Lawrence, and together they specialize in self-publishing children's books.

They have been married for several years and have traveled together between Australia and Canada. Ben is also a freelance writer that specializes in writing website content for businesses and a wide variety of different articles.

They have published a series of children's books called My Little Fart and Hockey Wars, as well as If I Was A Caterpillar and several other non-fiction books.