Danvers\, Massachusetts\, 1989. A high sch ool field hockey team discovers that the witchcraft of their Salem forebea rs may be the key to a winning season. In this tour de female force\, the Danvers High School Falcons Varsity is on an unaccountable streak. In chap ters dense with '80s iconography--from Heathers to Big Hair--Quan \;Ba rry \;expertly weaves the individual and collective journeys of this e nchanted team: the quiet\, husky goalie Mel Boucher\, who signs her name t o a pledge of darkness in a notebook with heartthrob Emilio Estevez on the cover\; the top bitch forward\, Jen Fiorenza\, whose bleached blond "Claw " sees and knows all\; the good-girl captain Abby Putnam (a descendant of the famous Salem witness Ann Putnam)\, who is hesitant to sign her name to the Emilio pact\; AJ Johnson\, the team's one black player\, for whom enc hantment brings racial awakening\; the untouchably beautiful Girl Cory and her name-twin Boy Cory\, who plays this female sport for his own reasons. These "witches" and their teammates are as wily and original as their Nor th of Boston ancestors\, flouting society's stale notions of femininity to find their true selves in a celebration of teen girldom in all its glory.
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