About this item
Lei and her crew know their skatepark is run down and nothing special, but its theirs and they are proud of it. So when a crew of older boys move in to claim the park as their own, Lei isn't going to just step aside and let them. She challenges the boys to a skate off -- trick for trick. Half of her crew is ready to give up the park, while the boy she's crushing on tries to step in and come between her and trouble. But Lei is determined to prove that she can skate and that she can take care of herself. Part of Tony Hawk's Live2Skate series, Daring proves that work and determination can take you far.
About the Author
Blake A. Hoena grew up in central Wisconsin, where, in his youth, he wrote stories about robots conquering the Moon and trolls lumbering around in the woods behind his parents house, and the fact that the trolls were hunting for little boys had nothing to do with Blake's pesky brothers. Later, he moved to Minnesota to pursue a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Minnesota State University, Mankato. Since graduating, Blake has written more than thirty books for children, including retellings of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and the Perseus and Medusa myth. Most recently, he's working on a series of graphic novels about two space alien brothers, Eek and Ack, who are determined to conquer our big blue home. --from the author's website
