Sugar and Ice - Softcover

Messner, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802723306 ISBN 13: 9780802723307

Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2011

Synopsis

For Claire Boucher, life is all about skating on the frozen cow pond and working at her family's maple farm. But when a professional skating coach offers Claire a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to train with the elite skaters in Lake Placid, she's tossed into a competitive world of mean girls on ice. Can Claire find the strength to stand up to those who want her to fail?

About this title

Review:

Amazon Best Books of the Month, December 2010: In Sugar and Ice figure skating dreams come true when Claire Boucher is spotted at her small town's Maple Show by a big-time skating coach. Claire isn't sure she's ready for competitive skating, but a scholarship to the elite Lake Placid training camp is too great an opportunity to pass up. Making friends, handling bullies in her skating class, and the high standards of her demanding new coach--who insists she can land a double toe loop--are challenges Claire must face alone, far from the comfort of her family's maple farm activities and her childhood friends. Sugar and Ice is a sweet but never saccharine story of a small-town girl who follows a dream and learns she is capable of more than she ever imagined both on and off the ice. -- Seira Wilson

About the Author:

Kate Messner is the author of The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z. She teaches junior high in New York, where she lives with her husband and two children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0802723306
• ISBN 13: 9780802723307
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304