• Age: 9 to 13
• Grade: 4 to 8
• Reading age: 7 to 10

Hockey rules in Branko Stimac's new hometown, where its star players get the royal treatment. Any other sport - like soccer, where Branko excels - is considered second-rate. This means the sacrifices Branko's Croatian immigrant father made so he can play in Canada go unnoticed, as does Branko's stellar goalkeeping.

When Branko makes it onto the Edmonton Select team as the second-string keeper, he keeps the accomplishment to himself, sure that no one in his home town will care. But then a video of one of his spectacular saves gets posted on a sports blog and goes viral. Suddenly Branko has more attention than he dreamed of.

STEVEN SANDOR is an avid soccer player and fan, a former soccer columnist for the Sun Media chain, and has published sports articles in Soccer 360, Inside Soccer, Soccer Canada, the Prague Post, and the Budapest Sun. He is the current editor of Avenue, Edmonton's lifestyle magazine, and runs the online soccer magazine The 11. Steven is a former publications coordinator for the Edmonton Oilers Hockey Club and North American editor of FaceOff magazine. He lives in Edmonton.