Witchcraft, Field Hockey And 1980s Massachusetts Meet In 'We Ride Upon Sticks'
In Quan Barry's charming novel, a team's luck changes when its members pledge themselves to the forces of eternal darkness by signing a spiral notebook with Emilio Estevez's face on it.
"Every three hundred years or so, our kind gets loosed upon an unsuspecting world. And this time around, the history books would know us as the 1989 Danvers High School Women's Varsity Field Hockey Team."
At the beginning of Quan Barry's charming teen witchcraft-slash-field-hockey novel , the Danvers team is remarkable only for the frequency of their losses. They are like the Bad News Bears, with the caveat that "even though up until
