Shiny Skates

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Publisher : Workman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780761136392
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shiny Skates written by and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First we learn to walk, then we learn to speak, and then comes the hard part of learning to grow up. The author of The Magic Locket andSilver S lippers, writes about the hard part in a way that touches the lives of little girls everywhere. This fifth book in the Magic Charm series tells of a little girl who dreams of skating. Includes a silver skates charm on a chain.

Author : Elizabeth Koda-Callan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781422392133
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shiny Skates written by Elizabeth Koda-Callan and published by . This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To glide, to dance, to soar across the ice. The Shiny Skates encourages one little skater to chase her dream. This story¿s gift of self-esteem is timeless. The story is of a young girl who is discouraged when she has difficulty learning to ice skate, until her mother gives her a special necklace. Includes tiny silver skates on a silver chain tucked inside the cover. This is the fifth in Elizabeth Koda-Callan¿s much-loved magic Charm Books series. Recommended for children 4 years of age & up. Color illustrations.

Author : Maj Lindman
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN 13 : 0807525146
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and Their New Skates written by Maj Lindman and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early one Christmas morning in Sweden, Flicka, Ricka, and Dicka opened their eyes. Soon they would have their Christmas gifts! For the first time in over thirty years, this classic holiday tale returns, in a deluxe hardcover edition. Longtime fans of the series will delight in revisiting the story, and new readers will find fun and excitement as the girls must save their friend Bertie after an ice-skating disaster.

Author : Sam Giancana
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510711252
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Double Cross written by Sam Giancana and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most feared Chicago mobsters Sam Giancana clawed his way to the top of the Mafia hierarchy by starting as a hit man for Al Capone. He was known as one of the best vehicle escape artists, a tenacious business man, and a ruthless killer. He partied with major stars such as Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe and did business with agents ranging from the CIA to the Vatican to the shah of Iran. When politician Joe Kennedy gave Giancana the chance to use mob muscle to get his son John elected, Giancana jumped at the task. But the Kennedy brothers double-crossed him, waging full-out war on organized crime throughout the United States. And Giancana went after them. Written with suspense and conviction, we learn about how the CIA asked Giancana to assassinate Fidel Castro. The book includes Giancana's testimony about the truth of his involvement in the deaths of Monroe and others, among others. Chuck Giancana, Sam's brother, contributes a unique perspective of the mobs relationship with the Bay of Pigs and many other pivotal events of the 60's and beyond. Double Cross is an eye-opening account of the interworking of the government and the mob and how this relationship has impacted American history.

Author : E. L. Shen
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0374313814
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Comeback written by E. L. Shen and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. L. Shen's The Comeback is a heartfelt middle-grade debut about a young Chinese American girl trying to be a champ—in figure skating and in life. Twelve-year-old Maxine Chen is just trying to nail that perfect landing: on the ice, in middle school, and at home, where her parents worry that competitive skating is too much pressure for a budding tween. Maxine isn’t concerned, however—she’s determined to glide to victory. But then a bully at school starts teasing Maxine for her Chinese heritage, leaving her stunned and speechless. And at the rink, she finds herself up against a stellar new skater named Hollie, whose grace and skill threaten to edge Maxine out of the competition. With everything she knows on uneven ice, will Maxine crash under the pressure? Or can she power her way to a comeback? Set in Lake Placid, New York, this is a spunky yet stirring middle-grade story that examines racism, female rivalry and friendship, and the enduring and universal necessity of love and support.

Author : Gunter Nitsch
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1438933126
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weeds Like Us written by Gunter Nitsch and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The uprooting of seven million civilians - women, children, and elderly men - from their homes in the German provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania, and Silesia following World War II is largely unknown in the United States. Weeds Like Us is a gripping true adventure story about the author's own East Prussian family. The author's earliest years were spent in relative comfort on his grandfather's farm in East Prussia during World War II. For him, life in Hitler's Germany was the natural order of things. Then, in January 1945, just after the author's seventh birthday, the Russians rolled into East Prussia. Full of unexpected twists and turns, Weeds Like Us tells the story of what happened over the next six years, as the author's family tried to make its way safely to the West.

Author : Gloria López-Stafford
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826317094
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Place in El Paso written by Gloria López-Stafford and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir of growing up in El Paso in the 1940s and 1950s creates an entire city: the way a barrio awakens in the early morning sun, the thrill of a rare desert snow, the taste of fruit-flavored raspadas on summer afternoons, the "money boys" who beg from commuters passing back and forth to Juárez, and the mischief of children entertaining themselves in the streets. López-Stafford shows readers El Paso through the eyes of Yoya--short for Gloria--the high-spirited narrator, who is five years old when the book begins. Yoya is a survivor. Her young mother has died, leaving her in the care of her much older father, who tries to provide for his family by selling used clothing. Her brother Carlos, Padre Luna, and a community of children and women assume responsibility for Yoya, but like the inexplicable loss of her mother, unexpected changes separate her from her beloved barrio. The search for su lugar, her place, becomes a search for identity as Gloria seeks to understand her various homes and families.

Author : Adonica Schultz Aune Ph. D.
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532031513
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Life Story written by Adonica Schultz Aune Ph. D. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Life Story: Margaret Estelle Gulbranson Schultz was first written in longhand by Margaret. Her story is a firsthand account of a young girl of Norwegian descent who grew up in a family of nine children in North Dakota during the Depression. Of interest is the fact that the family did live in a boxcar and were the authentic boxcar children. The Gulbranson offspring learned early to fend for themselves and help others. Being the eldest, Margaret supported and cared for her eight siblings. After a harsh start in school knowing no English, Margaret (to her delight) was sent home, learned English in one year, and went on to become a teacher at the age of nineteen. For over forty years, she continued to be heavily involved in the educational system. Margaret Estelle Gulbranson Schultz is memorialized as a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, aunt, friend, and teacher.

Author : Christine W. Murphy
Publisher : Hard Shell Word Factory
ISBN 13 : 0759945454
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood on Skates written by Christine W. Murphy and published by Hard Shell Word Factory. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic Suspense: Someone is trying to kill Dr. Michael Boccelli's wife. Trouble is, she's already dead. Michael, hounded by a journalist determined to prove he got away with murder, hides in a small Minnesota town helping his brother Conway run his roller rink. The ink still wet on her divorce papers, Catherine Kirby needs a place to stay while she gets back on her feet. She arrives in the middle of a frigid November to find that her best friend's husband Conway has given away the upstairs apartment she was promised. At first, Kate's biggest problem is figuring out who gets the bed. After Conway is attacked, things get complicated fast. Someone obsessed with Michael's late wife has been murdering women. The trail of bodies stretches across the country, a trail that coincides with Michael's wanderings. When the facts become known, Michael cannot deny that he's obsessed. The killing has started again, and the blood leads straight to him. An unbalanced man accused and cleared of murdering his wife and child. A serial killer on the loose. Kate is betting her life that they are not one and the same.

Author : Elizabeth Bishop
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374518556
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Prose written by Elizabeth Bishop and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1984-11 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of fiction and nonfiction includes both previously published and hitherto unpublished stories, such as In the Village, The Housekeeper, and Gwendolyn and nonfiction works discovered among the author's papers after her death.