• Age: 14 to 18
• Grade: 8 to 12

P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Alex McKenzie is a promising young hockey player with hopes of making the Quebec City junior hockey team. Once Alex and his friend Tommy, who is also vying to make the team, arrive in Quebec City, things begin to change. Tommy becomes sullen and obnoxious, hanging out with a bunch of dubious types. As the boys grow apart, tragedy befalls Tommy and their friendship is sorely tested. A thrilling yet very human story, this novel demonstrates how an unassuming hero deals with powerful peer pressures, budding love, and misfortune while fulfilling the dream that others have for him.

Sylvain Hotte is an award winning writer of fiction for children and young adults. He was born in Montreal but has lived and worked in Quebec City of fifteen years. His first series Darhan was astoundingly successful. Power Forward is the second book in the Break Away series, after BREAK AWAY1, JESSIE ON MY MIND. His first 10 book series for young people Darhan tells of the adventures of a young warrior in Genghis Khan's empire. Sylvain Hotte won the Quebec City Creative Literature Award in 2010 for BREAK AWAY.

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"Set against the backdrop of the highly charged world of competitive junior hockey, Power Forward captures the often random combinations of naïveté and smarts, impulsiveness and calculation, and compassion and cruelty experienced by young people on the verge of adulthood. . . . It works well as a standalone." —www.QuillAndQuire.com