Nancy is practically an expert at skating while playing pretend in her living room! When Nancy and Bree head out on the ice for real, Nancy is 100 percent positive she'll be an ice skater extraordinaire, but Nancy learns that ice skating is slipperier business than she thought.
Little Red is an excellent ice skater, but she will need a good partner for the skating pairs competition and the only one available is a certain Wolf, who needs new skates as badly as Little Red does.
What's it like to have a famous sister-and always live in her shadow? Skater Sister tells the story of the 14-year-old younger sister of an Olympic figure skating hopeful. First romance and sibling rivalry play out against the background of the run-up to the 2014 Winter Olympics, with a dramatic ending on February 20, 2104, the day of the Ladies' Figure Skating Final in Sochi (from website).
Photographs and text provide an introduction to figure skating, looking at skates and costumes, arenas, competitions and scoring, various skating moves, and routines and performances, and discussing the health benefits of skating.
Nanny takes on an exciting task when she decides to teach Eloise and Weenie to ice skate on a cold, snowy winter day, but has more trouble than she anticipated teaching a dog how to skate.
"Peasprout Chen dreams of becoming a legend of wu liu, the deadly and beautiful art of martial arts figure skating. As the first students from the rural country of Shin to attend Pearl Famous Academy of Skate and Sword, Peasprout and her little brother, Cricket, have some pretty big skates to fill. They soon find themselves in a heated competition for top ranking. Tensions rise when the dazzling pearl buildings of the academy are vandalized, and outsider Peasprout is blamed for the attacks by her rivals ... and even some friends. Now she must uncover the true vandal to ensure peace between Shin and Peal -- all while becoming a champion"--Publisher.
