All she wanted was to skate, but when her dreams come true, what happens when she's thrown into the cutthroat world of figure skating competition? For Claire Boucher, life is all about skating on the frozen cow pond and in the annual Maple Show right before the big pancake breakfast on her family's farm. But all that changes when Russian skating coach Andrei Grosheva offers Claire a scholarship to train with the elite in Lake Placid. Tossed into a world of mean girls on ice, where competition is everything, Claire realizes that her sweet dream come true has sharper edges than she could have imagined. Can she find the strength to stand up to the people who want to see her fail and the courage to decide which dream she wants to follow? From bestselling author Kate Messner comes a heartfelt novel about the fun and frigid sides of figure skating.
When Kate trades in her double-bladed skates for a pair of sleek, new "grown up" figure skates, she suddenly becomes a real klutz on the ice, until she gets some help from a pro. Simultaneous.
In-line skating has become so popular it's almost a national sport. In simple, bouncy language this how-to book teaches readers the basics of skating. Includes safety tips. Color illustrations.
A set of six books written simply for beginning readers. Five of the six books stress a single short vowel sound with controlled vocabulary. One book includes all the short vowels in the simple text.