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The million dollar goal

Brother and sister twins, Dawn and Dusk, love hockey. Unfortunately, their dad hates the game, and their grandmother thinks they ought to be doing their homework. But, when their dad gets free tickets to a Canadiens game, he takes the whole family. The lucky fan who will get a chance to take a shot...

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Main Author: Gutman, Dan.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Hyperion Books For Children, c2003.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Brothers and sisters > Juvenile fiction.
Twins > Juvenile fiction.
Grandmothers > Juvenile fiction.
Fortune > Juvenile fiction.
Montréal (Québec) > Juvenile fiction.
Hockey stories > Juvenile.
Summary: Brother and sister twins, Dawn and Dusk, love hockey. Unfortunately, their dad hates the game, and their grandmother thinks they ought to be doing their homework. But, when their dad gets free tickets to a Canadiens game, he takes the whole family. The lucky fan who will get a chance to take a shot on goal for one million dollars will be chosen at the end of the game. Will Dawn or Dusk be the lucky one?
Item Description: "This book is set in 12/19 Palatino"--T.p. verso.
Physical Description: 167 p. ; 22 cm.
Audience: "Ages 8-12"--Inside front dust-jacket.
Awards: A Junior Library Guild Selection.
ISBN: 0786818832 (hbk.) :
Author Notes: Dan Gutman was born in New York City on October 19, 1955. He received a degree in psychology from Rutgers University in 1977. He started a video game magazine in 1982 called Video Games Player, which later became Computer Games. When the magazine went out of business in 1985, he decided to become a full-time writer. He wrote several non-fiction baseball books for adults, before changing his focus to non-fiction sports books for children. In 1994, he decided to switch to children's fiction. He is the author of the Baseball Card Adventures Series, My Weird School series, My Weird School Daze series, My Weirder School series, and The Genius Files series. In 2014 his title, Texas with Love, which was the fourth book in the Genius Files Series, made The New York Times Best Seller List.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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