Hans Brinker or Silver Skates
Автор:
Dodge, Mary Mapes, 256 стр., издатель:
"Macmillan Heinemann", ISBN:
978-0-812-53342-2
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...