skating

This beginners' guide to ice skating includes chapters on the first time on ice, ice safety, skating backward, curving, circles, figure skating, and other techniques.

Traces the history of figure skating, the oldest event in the winter Olympic games, and discusses some of the outstanding skaters in this competition and the techniques they have developed over the years.

Maggie discovers that the jumps and twirls she learned from Mrs. Crump come in handy when she joins the hockey team.

As winter progresses, the strange man in the worn flight jacket dances frequently on the ice of the rink, expressing more with his movements than most people do with words.

When her crush Brandon reveals that the animal shelter where he volunteers is in danger of being closed, Nikki and her friends enter an ice skating competition to help raise money, an effort that is compromised by an interfering Mackenzie.

Poppy, a little pig with big dreams, plans on becoming a star ice skater, but soon learns that fulfilling her dreams is harder than she had planned.