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Join Our Spoiler-Welcome Discussion of T. Kingfisher’s Books  

a perfect blast of nostalgia from the paranormal past…until the last 30 pages blows it all up

We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry

May 25, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 4 Comments

A losing field hockey team is sweating themselves half to death. They are being pummeled by every other group on campus; a collection of high school teams from allover New England living the exciting existence of a pre-college summer program. They haul their broken bodies back to the dorms of the UNH campus, exhausted physically and spiritually. The goalie is DONE with this exhaustion. She wants, needs, and expects more for both herself and her beloved team. She, like many teen girls before and after, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: AAPI voices, Boston's North Shore, coming-of-age, Danvers, field hockey, girlhood, high school, high school sports, historical fiction, Massachusetts, paranormal, problematic, Quan Barry, salem, Salem Witch Trials, sports, superstition, the 1980s

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:48 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: AAPI voices, Boston's North Shore, coming-of-age, Danvers, field hockey, girlhood, high school, high school sports, historical fiction, Massachusetts, paranormal, problematic, Quan Barry, salem, Salem Witch Trials, sports, superstition, the 1980s ·
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