The Chicken Doesn't Skate

Steve Pitt is a Toronto-based freelance writer and an award-winning journalist. He has written many young adult and children's books, including Day of the Flying Fox: The True Story of World War II Pilot Charley Fox.

Adam is captain of the worst hockey team in his high school’s history.
Milo is a kid who desperately wants to impress his Nobel Prize-winning
scientist father. Zachary plans to become a famous horror film
screenwriter some day. What these three students have in common is a
chicken named Henrietta, who began life as Milo’s science project—a
chick raised to become a finger-licking thesis as a demonstration of the
food chain at the state science fair. But Henrietta accidentally becomes
the mascot for Adam’s hockey team, and its losing streak ends. If
Henrietta ends up in the deep frier, so does the hockey team’s only
chance to beat the dreaded division champions from Winnipeg. Zachary
hates hockey, science projects, and chickens but somehow becomes
ensnared in the tug-of-chicken between Milo and Adam.

Gordon Korman, who has written more than 20 books, has a deft touch on
the funny bones of most young readers, but this book is even funnier
than his usual solid standards. Highly recommended.