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 Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates Mary Mapes Dodge LITERATURE • 2002 • PAPER • 256 PAGES • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
The beloved 1865 children's book, exhaustive in its detail of daily life in 19th-century Holland. The impoverished Brinker children yearn for a pair of silver skates, but they must make do with skates of wood -- unless Hans can win the annual skating competition. It's a children's classic -- and the source of the famous tale of the boy who plugged a dike with his thumb. Ages 9-12
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