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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Poppy's big dreams lead her to Paris for the world games ice skating championship. Nervous but ever courageous and supported by her family she embarks upon the adventure head-on. Poppy meets a snowboarding panda, a Maltese who skies, and two fellow skaters, a crane and a Kangaroo. She begins to realize that although these animals look different, act different, and are from different places, they are all the same at heart
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Poppy is a little pig that dreams of being a star, and even though her first attempts all fail, the support and love of her family and friends encourage her to keep trying and working hard to find something that she loves doing, and is good at.
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Series
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Having mastered ballet in Flora and the Flamingo, Flora takes to the ice and forms an unexpected friendship with a penguin. Twirling, leaping, spinning, and gliding, on skates and flippers, the duo mirror each other's graceful dance above and below the ice. But when Flora gives the penguin the cold shoulder, the pair must figure out a way to work together for uplifting results. Artist Molly Idle creates an innovative, wordless picture book with clever...
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Series
Girls only (GO!) volume 5
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Sixth grader Livvy prays for guidance when her grandmother's constant mothering threatens to interfere with Livvy's dream of becoming an Olympic skater.
Author
Series
Girls only (GO!) volume 1
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Olivia Hudson's dream of becoming an Olympic skater seems to be ruined when her father moves to Alpin Lake, Colorado.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
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Budding costume designer Lola lives an extraordinary life in San Francisco with her two dads and beloved dog, dating a punk rocker, but when the Bell twins return to the house next door Lola, recalls both the friendship-ending fight with Calliope, a figure skater, and the childhood crush she had on Cricket.
12) Dancing Carl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
From the first ice, a thin skin on a bucket of water, through thickly-iced fields, streams, and gardens, a girl, her family, and friends anticipate and enjoy a winter of skating, ending with an ice show complete with costumes, refreshments, and clowns.
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Series
Dork diaries volume 4
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New York Times best-selling author Rachel RenEe Russell has more than five million copies of her Dork Diaries books in print. In the series' fourth installment, Nikki Maxwell likes a boy, Brandon, who does volunteer work at an animal shelter. When Nikki learns the shelter may have to close, she convinces her friends to help raise money by entering an ice-skating competition! But soon- and not completely unexpectedly- pain-in-the-neck Mackenzie
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"The Olympics are full of skating sports! Graceful figure skaters impress with jumps, speed skaters zoom around the icy track, and hockey players turn on a dime to chase down the puck. Readers will enjoy learning about different skills needed for each of these activities. With colorful photographs illustrating the postures, foot placement, and techniques needed to learn how to ice-skate, the main content shows readers what fun they can have on the...
16) Hans Brinker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
A Dutch brother and sister work toward two goals--finding the doctor who can restore their father's memory and winning the competition for the silver skates.
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After Pinkalicious colors her white ice skates with a cotton candy pink marker, she feels ready to spin, glide, and soar with the best of them. But as the color starts to run off of her skates, she is embarrassed. When Pinkalicious thought she was going to leave her mark on the skating rink, she didn't mean it so literally. . . . This I Can Read story will have young readers laughing out loud-until they get pink in the cheeks!
18) Breaking the ice
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Kaitlin has given up a lot--even attending school--to pursue her dream of being a champion figure skater, but after she throws a tantrum at a major competition, she is dropped by her coach and prestigious skating club and can only get a spot in the much-ridiculed Fallton Club.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Esperanza Flores's place on the United States Olympic figure skating team has come at the expense of an injured skater, so in addition to the pressure of sudden fame and outsized expectations Espi has to deal with the resentment of her teammates--and their efforts to sabotage her routine.
20) Stick with me
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When twelve-year-olds Izzy and Wren are thrown together by unusual circumstances, they find solace and solutions to nagging problems in their newly-formed friendship.