The vibrating plastic warbles the lyrics incomprehensibly, but it was the song of this summer. Someone turns up the volume on a cell phone and drops it into an empty plastic Solo cup. A cooler with mini bottles of orange juice dragged across the linoleum. A platter of still-warm bagels and tubs of cream cheese carried away. Luci gags, but thankfully the other girls-her new teammates-don’t notice.Ī celebration is brewing across the classroom.ĭesks are bulldozed into corners. The overflow pushes through the tiny holes and streamers of orthodontic Play-Doh quickly fill the empty spaces inside her mouth. Luci Capurro sinks her teeth into a perforated metal tray packed with pink clay. And just how far they’re willing to go for their team takes them all-especially Coach-by surprise.Ī testament to the strength and resilience of modern teenage girls, We Are the Wildcats will have readers cheering. One where they take a rival team’s mascot for a joyride, crash a party in their pajamas, break into the high school for the perfect picture.īut as the girls slip out of their comfort zone, so do some long-held secrets. Until now.Ĭoach-a handsome former college player revered and feared in equal measure-changes the plan and spins his team on a new adventure.
But at tonight’s team sleepover, the girls are all about forging the bonds of trust, loyalty, and friendship necessary to win.Įverything hinges on the midnight initiation ceremony-a beloved tradition and the only facet of being a Wildcat that the girls control. Tomorrow, the Wildcat varsity field hockey squad will play the first game of their new season.
A toxic coach finds himself outplayed by the high school girls on his team in this deeply suspenseful novel, which unspools over twenty-four hours through six diverse perspectives.
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