Matt Christopher (Ice Magic) Book Report

1. Matt Christopher (Ice Magic) Book Report By Joe Sasson

2. Characters • Terry (The Terrible) Mason: In this story terry is a bully. • Pie Penelli: Pie Penelli is the main character in this story and he is picked on by Terry. • Jody: Pie’s next door neighbor. • Jolite: Pie’s next door neighbor, who is also a twin sister to Jody. • Pat: Pies older brother who is going to play collage hockey.

3. Setting • Most of this story takes place at the local ice arena, but some of it takes place in Jody and Jolite’s house. • Time: Late Fall, Early Winter.

4. Problem • In this story Pie Penelli has 2 problems 1 of which is that his dad doesn’t have enough money to buy him new skates so he has to use his brothers pat’s skates which are way to big 4 him. So when he goes on the ice to skate he cant skate that well so he gets ripped on by the other kids. Pie’s other problem is that there is a bully named Terry (The Terrible) Mason, who is always picking on Pie, and Pie can do nothing to stop it.

5. Solution • In Jody and Jolite’s basement there is a toy hockey game and what ever happened in the toy game happened in Pie’s real game, so it came down to the final game; the championship game. So while the twins were at home playing the toy game Pie was at the rink playing his real game. The twins back home were doing everything they could to make Pie play well. Anyways in the real game its going into the 3rd period tied 2-2. Later in that period Pie has a break away nothing but clear ice he shouts he scores the penguins (Pie’s team) won the championship