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THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Having lost the key to their locker, Eric and Cam must find the key before their parents discover it is gone, in an early reader storybook that features short sentences, repetition, and plent ... Read more

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good for transition
I home school my son, he's a struggling reader.The Young Cam Jansen series has proven to be wonderful for the transition to books with smaller type face and more words per page. He's feeling successful and loves to help solve the mystery as he reads them.
The series has good pictures that relate well to the written text.And the text is well done in short sentences.There are some challenging words here and there, but my son is so engrossed is the story he tries his darndest to sound the word out. As they say nothing suceeds like success.

Cam Jansen is one of the Best Kid Detectives I've ever read
You have to love Cam Jansen.When you're a kid, you read all of these stories about magic powers, mystery, and adventure.But everyone tells you magic can't exist.Cam Jansen manages to solve every case without the use of magic... she's a real girl.That's what makes her special and what makes you want to red more and more.Cam Jansen is a real kid superhero, and the thought that a person like her could actually exist... makes her the best kid detective ever!The Ice-Skate Mystery is one of the best in the Young Cam series.

my daughter loves Cam Jansen
While my daughter, age 3 1/2, is younger than the targeted readers of this series, she has loved Cam Jansen since she was 2.These stories are wonderfully written and illustrated and they encourage children to think.My daughter has red hair and brown eyes just like Cam, and now she wants to have long hair like Cam.I highly recommend all of the Cam Jansen books.

Not just for Early Readers
...We have most of the Young Cam Jansen paperbacks and recommend them unreservedly for other read-along parents, especially parents of young girls. Less-than-ideal personalities, personal conflicts and misunderstandings are all presented, WITH good resolutions, character modeling, and handling of sticky situations.

The main character is a self-confident, intelligent thinker and investigator, with a boy as her best friend. Not exactly typical, and not for ultraconservative parents who think that only boys should use their minds and have adventures.

One particularly nice aspect is that most of the stories take place outside of a public-school setting, recognizing that most discovery and meaningful social interactions take place outside of that institution -- a point not lost on homeschooling-minded parents. The one public-school setting (see the "Lost Tooth" mystery) is in the Art class, where creativity and fun are the dominant theme.

Get and read the Young Cam Jansen series!....

great book for first graders
This is a great book for your first grader to step up to the next level with. This book is perfect for catching your young scolars intrest in reading. ... Read more

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This magical picture book tells the story of Emily, a little girl who watches graceful skaters on an icy pond and wishes she could skate with them. She gathers her courage and gives ice skating a try, but quickly finds out how difficult it is. She struggles and wobbles, and finally loses her balance and has a fall. But Emily doesn't give up. She begins to make progress when she goes to skating class, and after much practice Emily is ready to take part in an ice dancing show. Each of this attractive book's illustrations includes tabs for young readers to pull and wheels for them to turn. These featuresadd movement to the illustrations and animate Emily's progress as an ice dancer. The book's final two-page spread presents a spectacular pop-up, in which Emily, star of the ice dancing show, actually performs a spin before a cheering audience. ... Read more

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Part of a series integrating photographs and a simple text to give a "behind the scenes" look at popular sports. Ice skaters give a personal insight into the training, special preparations and techniques needed to compete successfully, and a fact section examines the sport in detail. ... Read more

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Discusses basic and advanced ice skating skills, equipment, and three styles of skating; competitive figure, power, and speed skating. ... Read more

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Nostalgia trip
If you grew up and went to grade school in the 60's or 70's, you'll remember these books (there's a series of them) from when you used to check them out of the school library!They're still just as fun, and the basics are still there.A combination of good info for parents looking to teach their little ones AND take a trip down memory lane. ... Read more

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An introduction to the equipment and basic techniques of ice skating. ... Read more

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An introduction to the basic techniques of ice skating with information on equipment, exercises, and training for competitions. ... Read more

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A sister and brother learn the basic skills of ice skating and advance to earn their first skating badge from the Ice Skating Institute of America. ... Read more

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The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Skating is the most comprehensive and up-to-date skating-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round skating-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results whether you are a figure skater or a speed skater.

No other skating book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book provides you with the exercises needed to improve your footwork, speed, and power. By following this program you will increase your overall lower body strength making you faster, quicker, and more agile on the ice.

Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!

As an added bonus, this book also contains links to free record keeping charts which normally sell separately for $20. ... Read more

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Explains how to create a unique, personal skating style and foster creativity, charisma and excellence on the ice, and covers topics from choosing the right music to off-ice exercise, warm-ups, and nutrition. ... Read more

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a modest book with an incredible depth of artistic content!
This book has been around for a while but nothing can hold a candle to the depth of artistic and technical content that Ricky Harris has given us in this "must have" book! Her expertise and technical insight is areal gift to us all, the chapters on" Design in Space and Time","Movements from Gestures" as well as "Warming Up" &"The Ice Barre" show such artistic evaluation andimplimentation.Since She runs a dance studio her chapter on "WhyDance?" is especially relevant and the photos of her studentscertainly validate that she is a Master Teacher in her field. Actually I amsurprised that her book is not more widely known and used in the skatingfield. I teach an on/off ice course for figure skaters and am alwaysrecommending this book to both skaters and coaches for its clarity,accuracy, and wisdom..."be humble; ask for help if you need it. Onelittle word from someone may cause that light to switch on", and one Ialways harp on "A Stretch is NOT a Warm up!" ... Read more

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Omar loves drawing pictures and wishes he could be as good at it as his classmate Elsie.But his teacher, Ms. Fudge, can never figure out what Omar's pictures are- no matter how hard she tries.When the whole class goes ice-skating, however, Omar's true talent emerges.He shows Elsie how he can glide and whirl and spin.After all, it's easy when you don't worry and just have fun.And the whole class discovers with Omar that there is more than one way to draw pictures. ... Read more

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My daugther loves this book!
My daughter loves this story.She loves cute, pudgie Omar and the other bears.She loves iceskating and drawing.I love the subtle message of "try, try again." We read this one over and over and over.- AndI don't mind! ... Read more

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In this playful introduction to the world's most rapidly growing sport, very young children learn about figure skating. From boot, lace, and skate to figure eights and serpentines, preschoolers will experience the thrill of the ice as two skaters spend a fun-filled (and sometimes bumpy) day at the rink.

Margaret Blackstone's pithy, declarative sentences, and John O'Brien's bright, happy illustrations will score a winning "Six" with aspiring young figure skaters.
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The fundamental principles of figure-skating, ice-dance, speed-skating and ice-hockey.Also contain advice about equipment and suitable practical advice. ... Read more