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Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates : Complete and Unabridged (Tor Classics)
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates Complete and Unabridged - Tor Classics Author:Mary Mapes Dodge From glistening ice roads to frozen canals, in a wonderland where even the richest nobles thrill to the gliding joys of winter, everyone is awaiting the fabulous race to win the magnificent Silver Skates -- — Except Hans Brinker and his sister Gretel. For the Brinkers are desperately poor, friendless; with a father felled by a crip... more »pling head wound, Mother and the children must battle simply to survive. And while Hans and Gretel are strong, fast, disciplined, and loyal...on hand-crafted wooden skates, they can't complete against trained rich kids with fine steel blades...
But sometimes...sometimes...good people are given a chance. Sometimes strangers do care. And sometimes a family's love and loyalty can struggle against even the cruelest twists of fate...