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Silver Blades #17
A Leap Ahead
Amber Armstrong is only eleven, but she can already skate as well as -- even better than -- the older girls in Silver Blades. The only problem is that the other skaters still treat her like a baby.
So Amber decides to take the senior-level skating test. She'll be the youngest skater ever to pass, and then the other girls will have to stop treating her like a little kid.
Amber is sure her plan will work. But is she headed for success, or for total disaster?
Don't miss the other books about the Silver Blades skaters!
So Amber decides to take the senior-level skating test. She'll be the youngest skater ever to pass, and then the other girls will have to stop treating her like a little kid.
Amber is sure her plan will work. But is she headed for success, or for total disaster?
Don't miss the other books about the Silver Blades skaters!
- GenresChildrensFigure Skating
144 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 1996
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November 19, 2012
The thrilling tale of a girl who is younger than everyone else at the skating club.
Wait a second... this isn't Skate School.
Yeah Nikki and the rest are tons more realistic than Skate School. Silver Blades is a CLUB not a school. This somehow makes it more believable, even though Jill does go to the Ice Academy in book 4, you can see that it was hard work to get there, not a chance meeting with the director.
This book got an extra star JUST because of the front cover. It's a pretty cover in general, but what I love about it is that if you turn it puside down, Amber's face looks like an alien...
Amber is my favorite character, I have a soft spot for younger siblngs and the like and she also reminds me a little of Danielle (not Danielle the Silver Blades character, a real Danielle), but the thing that annoys me is that her storylines are always about how she is younger than everyone else and no one wants to hang out with her. Everytime this happens, they apologise and say that they will spend more time with her, but then the exact same storyline pops up again. Why can't the storyline be about how SHE got the main part in an ice show (Jill's POV) or that SHE is going to Nationals (Tori's POV)?
Wait a second... this isn't Skate School.
Yeah Nikki and the rest are tons more realistic than Skate School. Silver Blades is a CLUB not a school. This somehow makes it more believable, even though Jill does go to the Ice Academy in book 4, you can see that it was hard work to get there, not a chance meeting with the director.
This book got an extra star JUST because of the front cover. It's a pretty cover in general, but what I love about it is that if you turn it puside down, Amber's face looks like an alien...
Amber is my favorite character, I have a soft spot for younger siblngs and the like and she also reminds me a little of Danielle (not Danielle the Silver Blades character, a real Danielle), but the thing that annoys me is that her storylines are always about how she is younger than everyone else and no one wants to hang out with her. Everytime this happens, they apologise and say that they will spend more time with her, but then the exact same storyline pops up again. Why can't the storyline be about how SHE got the main part in an ice show (Jill's POV) or that SHE is going to Nationals (Tori's POV)?
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