Breaking the Ice
By (Author) Gail Nall
Simon & Schuster
Aladdin
1st February 2015
United States
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Relationship stories
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Sporting stories
FIC
Hardback
320
Width 140mm, Height 210mm, Spine 30mm
406g
Figure skating is Kaitlins passion, but she lands on thin ice after a meltdown in this funny, touching story. Because when you fall down, you have to pick yourself upeven if its in front of judges and a crowd.
Kaitlin has always dreamed of being a champion figure skater, and shes given up a lot to pursue her passion. But after she has a totally uncharacteristic tantrum at a major competition, shes dropped by her coach and her prestigious skating club.
When no other club will have her, shes forced to join the ridiculed and run-down Fallton Club, jokingly referred to as the Fall Down Club. At first Kaitlin thinks this is a complete disaster, but after meeting some of the other skatersincluding a boy who happens to have the most perfect hair shes ever seenshe realizes it might not actually be so bad.
Yet learning a whole new program right before regionals is a huge challenge, and when she realizes that all the other area skaters target Fallton for pranks, she begins to wonder if joining the Fall Down Club has any upsides.
Gail Nall lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with her family and more cats than necessary. She once drove a Zamboni, has camped in the snow in June, and almost got trampled in Paris. Gail is the author of the middle grade novel Breaking the Ice,the coauthor of Youre Invited and Youre Invited Too, andthe author of the young adult novel Exit Stage Left. You can find her online at GailNall.com and on Twitter as @GaileCN.