The F Team

My friends and I love hockey. We shared a single dream: To shoot like stars across the ice and make our town's A team. Last year we tried out full of hope. Five friends and I were keen, Until we got a look at them. Those A's were big and mean. Right from the start they broke the rules. "We've picked our team," they said. "Go home, Frenchie. You, too, Fanny - and don't forget Fat Fred." When Fanny and her friends' hopes to play on a team are dashed, Fanny comes up with the grand solution: figure skates. She and her team will learn moves never dreamed of by a hockey coach. And learn they do. After a few weeks of training, the F Team faces off against the A Team; the "A's" are in for a surprise! Anne Laurel Carter is as comfortable writing in rhyme as out of it. And she loves hockey. Her husband builds a hockey rink in their back yard every winter. Her three sons and her daughter have all played hockey and all four took figure skating lessons when they wanted to make an "A" hockey team. She is also the author of In the Clear (Orca, 2001), a juvenile historical novel about a girl crippled by polio who dreams of playing hockey. Rose Cowles comes from a long line of creative people. Her grampa was a painter; her grandma is a baker, seamstress and needlepoint guru; and Rose herself began her career by winning a transistor radio in a coloring contest when she was twelve. She has illustrated more than half a dozen books. In The F Team she brings a light, funny touch to hockey on figure skates - all the time she has spent eating hot dogs and pretzels at hockey games has finally paid off!Anne Laurel Carter is the author of 'The F Team', published 2003 under ISBN 9781551432410 and ISBN 1551432412.