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The Winning Edge
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The Winning Edge

By Michele Martin Bossley

$16.95 Hardback
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Series: Lorimer Sports Stories

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Jennie loves training at Richmond Skate, her Calgary figure skating club, but her Olympic dreams always seem impossibly far away. When her coach suggests she's got real talent, however, Jennie's ready to do what it takes to make her dreams real--or so she thinks.
Soon she's trying again and again and again to land her double Axel, and sacrificing her social life for the rink. As the cost of skating success becomes higher and higher, Jennie starts to wonder if being a star is worth what she's losing along the way.
The Winning Edge is an exciting, fast-moving story about a young skater whose ambitions force her to examine what she values most in life.

Awards

Commended - Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice Selection - 2000

MICHELE MARTIN BOSSLEY was born in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., but grew up in Calgary from the time she was five. She is the author of ten other children\s books including Taking a Dive runner-up for the R. Ross Annett Award in Children's Literature and The Perfect Gymnast nominated for the 1999 Manitoba Reader's Choice Award. One of her more recent books Pool Princess has been nominated for a Golden Eagle Children's Choice Award. Michele has been involved in both synchronized swimming and competitive swimming since her teens. She has also coached young swimmers and draws on much of that experience for her books.

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Publication Details:

Binding: Hardback, 87 pages
Publication Date: 1st January 1998
ISBN: 9781550286373
Format: 7.75in x 5in

BIC Code: YFB
BISAC Code:  4.0.2.0.1.0.0, JUV014000
Imprint: Lorimer

Interest age: From 9 To 13

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