Yuma Public Library

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.

Callie Cat loves to ice skate and when she hears about the Honeybrook Ice Skating Contest she decides to enter, only to find that winning is not as important as the joy of skating.

Story about Annie, an ice skating coach who gave up on her dream long ago, and young Olympic hopeful, Madison Henry...who happen to me mother and daughter.

Hoping she will be chosen to skate with the star when an ice show comes to town, Olivia begins to practice her ice skating moves.

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.

"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...

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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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!

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.

Pearl's birthday skates have a single blade and learning to use them is harder than she expects.