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Dangerous Play
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- 89,00 kr
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- 89,00 kr
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A fierce team of girls takes back the night in this propulsive, electrifying, and high-stakes YA debut from Emma Kress
Zoe Alamandar has one goal: win the State Field Hockey Championships and earn a scholarship that will get her the hell out of Central New York. She and her co-captain Ava Cervantes have assembled a fierce team of dedicated girls who will work hard and play by the rules.
But after Zoe is sexually assaulted at a party, she finds a new goal: make sure no girl feels unsafe again. Zoe and her teammates decide to stop playing by the rules and take justice into their own hands. Soon, their suburban town has a team of superheroes meting out punishments, but one night of vigilantism may cost Zoe her team, the championship, her scholarship, and her future.
Perfect for fans who loved the female friendships of Jennifer Mathieu’s Moxie and the bite of Courtney Summer’s Sadie.
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It's Zoe Alamandar's junior year, and she's hoping that the players she and her cocaptain Ava recruited over the summer will finally take their Syracuse high school's field hockey team to States. The season starts promisingly, but after Zoe, who cues as white, is sexually assaulted, she loses her focus. Feeling helpless and angry, she and her intersectionally diverse teammates, many of whom are also survivors, use their athletic skills to fight back, sneaking into parties to attack and scare off any boy who attempts to assault a girl. When things go too far, though, and the team's sisterhood begins to strain, Zoe must decide if this tack is the right path to recovery. Debut author Kress nimbly alternates between heart-pounding field hockey scenes and social commentary, acknowledging, unlike many books about rape culture, that classism and racism intersect with and compound misogyny. If the narrative sometimes comes uncomfortably close to equating the girls' vigilantism with their attackers' sexual violence, it also renders Zoe's trauma unflinchingly and compassionately, making this a worthwhile look at sexism and the healing power of speaking out—as well as a passionate love letter to an underappreciated sport. Ages 14–up.