Books like Bittersweet by Sarah Ockler
Hudson Avery’s promising competitive ice‑skating career ends when her parents divorce at age fourteen. She now spends her time baking cupcakes and helping out in her mother’s upstate New York diner. When she receives a scholarship offer and begins coaching the boys’ hockey team, Hudson discovers that she still has a passion for the ice and that her life is far from finished.
First publish date: 2012
Genre: Family & Domestic Fiction/Marriage & Divorce Fiction
Authors: Sarah Ockler
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