Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates : Complete and Unabridged (Tor Classics)
Editorial Reviews
Lewis Smedes, Fuller Theological Seminary
HANS BRINKER was my best boyhood dream. Could I, if I tried terribly hard, become somebody like him? What a shame that hardly anybody knows Hans Brinker anymore. I am delighted that he is being brought back to life.
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
Book Description
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 crippling 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...
Sometimes...
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates: Complete and Unabridged (Tor Classics),Mary Mapes Dodge,Tor Classics,0812533429,Children's 12-Up - Literature - Classics,Classics,Fiction,Ice skating,Juvenile Fiction,Literature: Classics,Netherlands,Classic fiction,Juvenile Fiction / Classics
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