Scholastic Canada - The Chicken Doesn't Skate

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Scholastic Canada
ISBN 0-590-85301-5
192 pages
Ages 9-12

by Gordon Korman

What do a hockey player, a budding scientist, and a committed vegetarian have in common? A baby chick called Henrietta who enters the lives of these sixth graders as a baby chick lab specimen.

Milo sees the chick as a scientific specimen. Kelly Marie names the chick and encourages the class to get attached to it. Meanwhile, Adam takes Henrietta to one of his hockey games and discovers that she's a good luck charm for his team!

The problem is, the science fair is the same day as the championship hockey game . . . and Milo's plan is to complete the life cycle of a chicken by turning Henrietta into a fried chicken! It looks like the class will have to work together to save her!


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Excerpt from THE CHICKEN DOESN'T SKATE
by Gordon Korman

A science fair more important than hockey?

Give me a break! In this part of Minnesota, nothing is bigger than hockey. If the Moose People from Neptune invaded St. Martin during a big game, they'd encounter zero resistance. Everybody would be at the rink. Only the losers would be left to fight them off - a loser being anyone around here that doesn't skate.

Of course, I'm kind of biased since I'm pretty good at hockey. So good that I'm captain of the South Middle School Rangers, even though I'm only a seventh-grader. To be totally honest, I'm officially in sixth grade, but that's only because I flunked science last year. So I had to take it again in summer school and I kind of flunked that, too. In the summer, Rollerblade hockey is very big. The bottom line is, I'm in all grade-seven classes except science, where I am stuck with the little sixth-grade losers - a loser being anyone who can spend five seconds in that lab without going insane from boredom.

From The Chicken Doesn't Skate, copyright © 1996 by Gordon Korman

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"I thought that the story was really funny and humorous! And it's the best book I’ve ever read." Silvia S., Age 12, Manitoba, Rating: 10

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