The
Magic Hockey Skates
By Allen Morgan
Review by: Yvonne
Gaudet
When Joey outgrew his hockey skates, his
father took him shopping for a new pair. Although Joey had his eyes on a
new pair of skates, his father went straight to the used skates and
purchased a pair for him. The salesman, seeing that Joey was upset, told
him an important secret, the skates his father had chosen to buy are
magic! Every new boy who wears those skates is given three wishes! All
they have to do is give them a rub and make a wish. The following day
Joey tried out his new skates . His brother Zach wanted to practice
taking shots on the net. When Zach wasn’t looking, Joey rubbed his
skates and made his first wish." I wish I could be a better
skater" he whispered. Slowly but surely Joey’s skating began to
improve and by the end of the morning he was skating better then he had
before. "Maybe they do work" Joey wondered. Joey practiced
very hard over the next few weeks until he was very good, of course the
magic skates helped too. While he practiced he wondered about how he
would use his next wish. On Saturday Zach and his friends were one
player short for a game. Joey asked if he could play, and he told Zach
about his magic skates. Zach took a chance but agreed to let Joey play,
so Joey used his next wish. "I wish I could skate like the big
kids" he whispered and Joey did just that! He skated up and down,
passing and stealing the puck. By the end of the game all of Zach’s
friends said Joey could join them any time he wanted to. Zach was
starting to believe in the magic skates too! "Save it for something
big " he said. Joey did save his wish for something big! Something
really big!
This book is
another great book for your little hockey fans, whether they are boys or
girls. They will realize that maybe the skates weren’t magical at all!
Maybe the fact that Joey tried really hard and practiced a lot he became
a better hockey player and skater. Rumor has it that Joey’s mother
found the skates years later and took them to a used skate store.
Who knows, someone else may just have received three more wishes.
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