The Hockey Puck — David B. Graham

Robert Gazda-called Hokey Puck by some-has a problem. He's an All-American Ice Hockey jock who's had three surgeries on his knee. While he rehabs the knee, and waits to see if he will get a chance to try out for the Detroit Red Wings-his dream-he studies engineering, following in his father's footsteps. In the end he's going to have to choose, though-the NHL or engineering. On a dare, he enters an out-of-the-box design contest and wins. The innovation of the design prompts an unusual invitation to design and build a bridge that will open up a remote region of Colombia to farming a cash crop ... coffee, not coca. Gazda accepts, and soon finds himself the target of drug lords who don't want the bridge built, and a flashflood with enough power and debris to take the bridge out. This is a Young Adult career-interest adventure novel.