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At the first-ever women's hockey world championships in 1990, Canada dressed its National Women's Team in pink. Offending many, the controversial decision nevertheless drew media and public attention to the series and subsequently registration in girls' hockey went up 40%. Lorna Schultz Nicholson offers an insider's look at the power behind the pink jerseys. [Fry Reading Level - 3.2

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Pink Power is the best of the series, largely because of the author's skills in writing to a juvenile audience. --Joe Pelletier Hockey Book Reviews.com (07/09/2008)

<p>We think nothing now of seeing determined, bright-eyed, focused female hockey players. They arrive at the rink with hair styled just so, makeup on and towing giant bags of equipment. On the ice this persona drops: they check with tenacity, slash with impunity and roof a puck with the best of them. I know, I've coached them.<p>It wasn't always so. Female hockey has come a long way and has fought to find its place in our arenas, and to get our attention. Pink Power is the story of the first world chammpionship of women's hockey, how this disparate Canadian team was stitched together, and its struggle to gain that attention and acceptance. Also, it describes in delicious detail how these proud Canadians went from pounding hapless teams by 15-1 and 18-0 to how they had to do the proverbial gut check, and reach down deep to win.<p>Author Lorna Schultz Nicholson has got game in this fabulous needed-to-be-told tale of the first world women's championships in 1990.<p>When the tourney in Ottawa was announced, it was met with the media's quiet indifference. That all was changed by a simple act - instead of putting our team in its traditional red and white, it was outfitted in pink jerseys with white pants. Media shock and outrage followed, but the jaunty colour scheme had done its job - folks were now paying rapt attention. (The funniest thing is the players' reactions when their coaches - two of them male - came onto the ice in their pink unis.)<p>All of this makes Pink Power an enthralling read for middle-school readers.<p>Gary Curtis - The Hamilton Spectator - February 2, 2008 -- Gary Curtis The Hamilton Spectator

The author, Lorna Schultz Nicholson, is obviously well qualified to write in this genre as she is a former sports journalist who brings a practiced eye to the text. The language is clear and concise. The majority of the sentences are short, sharp and bring the games to life. Such sentences as, The pace was fast, the play tough. Bodies crashed against one another trying to get the puck. The boards rattled, the glass shook, lend a staccato beat to the paragraphs much like the play-by-play reporting of a game. <br> Readers are introduced to the process of selection as well as the women and coaches who made up the first demo team. Sufficient background information about each is given to appreciate the sacrifices made in order to qualify and participate. <br> Dawn picked up her bag and checked the clock. It was midnight already. She had to get up at six for her job at Cobblestone Paving. Dawn had moved from Alberta for work, and now she juggled her job and playing hockey. She'd have to as

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Former sports journalist LORNA SCHULTZ NICHOLSON is now a full-time fiction author in Calgary, where she lives with her husband, senior hockey official Bob Nicholson and three children. She is the author of several popular books in the <i>Sports Stories</i> series including the Canadian Children's Centre Our Choice selections <i>Against the Boards</i>, <i>Interference</i>, and <i>Roughing</i>, which was also shortlisted for the Golden Eagle Children's Choice Book Award. www.lornaschultznicholson.com

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