Books in Rocket McKenzie, Girl Skateboarder series

'Skateboarding becomes an Olympic Sport for the first time at the 2020 Games in Tokyo, Japan. Many of the tricks used by Rocket McKenzie will be seen in the Olympic Games.'Rocket McKenzie is an amazing skateboarder, but she skates alone most of the time because the boy's from her school don't skate with girls.While heading to practice at the beach, five popular boys from school watch as Rocket flies off course and crashes into a man's sandcastle. The boys tell her to stay on the beginner's course and out of their way. Never mind that it was the only way she could avoid smashing into a young boy that had run into her path and never mind that she'd just completed seven huge jumps on the cities steepest hill.She meets Noah, the most popular boy in school and cute too. Even better, he's a skateboarder. There's an immediate connection, and they enter the biggest skateboarding tournament in Southern California, the Regional's. What she didn't know is that the other boys from school had also entered the tournament, determined to prove that boys still dominate and always will.Rocket sets out on a quest to gain respect in a sport dominated by boys. Join her in the birth of the Purple Dragon as she balances honor and good sportsmanship with world class talent in a showdown that no one expected.

A perfect stranger comes to town and wants to be friends with Rocket. Somehow, this girl seems to know Rocket’s reputation quite well yet they have never met. She seems okay on the outside but Rocket senses something sneaky and mysterious deep inside.Spit and Abigail, Rocket’s two best friends, insist that this girl named Cricket is out to crush her reputation, but Rocket just can’t believe that anyone would do such a thing.Should Rocket have listened to her BFF’s? Was this chance meeting an accident or part of a master plan? What happens when a friend turns enemy?This episode of Rocket McKenzie takes you deep inside what it really means to be a best friend or perhaps the perfect enemy and to a showdown that marks the difference in believing in yourself or just giving in.