He was still young enough to play hockey like the old times but old enough to know the cruelties of this world surrounding him. Hockey made him feel like he belonged, like a kid again and it was something from his coaxing past. I thought this book was excellent because it showed how much he wanted to feel like a kid again, to be loved, but knowing that no one in the world was there to care for him anymore destroyed his imaginary, so he's left to pick up the shattered pieces of it and reform it into something else. He then heads to the community rink and befriends regular kids who opens their arms to him and asks him to join their hockey team, Jonathan then agrees, but knowing he cannot tell them that he's homeless. To escape all the problems around he stole hockey gear and turned to hockey. Upon arriving at his new home he starts to run errands, delivers packages and panhandles for food money.

Until he meets Lewis and he leads Jonathan to his new home, among groups of kids living in an abandoned underground shopping mall. He deals with daily struggles of loneliness and danger of the streets and worries of how he would survive the streets.

The story follows a young boy of 12 named Jonathan, after his mom dies,and the landlord kicks him out. 'Undergrounders' is a Young adult novel by David Skuy. It was a really good book, one of the best i have ever read. One of the kids and his family found about him being homeless and decided to make Jonathan part of there family. He did really well, almost winning the championship but losing to the red wings. He convinced his teammates that he had a home farther away. He ended up playing for there team the rebels. After the coach saw he immediately wanted Jonathan on his team. Since he did so well one of the kids asked his coach to come and watch. He ended up getting asked to play hockey with some normal kids. While he was playing at the out door rink he found out that he was a little rusty. He stole some equipment to play the sport he's always loved. One day he ended up walking into a closed hockey shop with tons of gear. He ended up finding this place called the underground which is a place for people like him to go for 50 cents a night, even though only the people who have been there new about it. This book is about a boy named Jonathan who became homeless after his mom died. This is a book that i could not put down.

Undergrounders by David Skuy