Breaking the Ice

by Gail Nall

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  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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  First Aladdin hardcover edition January 2015

  Text copyright © 2015 by Gail Nall

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Nall, Gail.

  Breaking the ice / by Gail Nall. — First Aladdin hardcover edition.

  p. cm.

  Summary: Kaitlin has given up a lot—even attending school—to pursue her dream of being a champion figure skater, but after she throws a tantrum at a major competition, she is dropped by her coach and prestigious skating club and can only get a spot in the much-ridiculed Fallton Club.

  [1. Ice skating—Fiction. 2. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 3. Practical jokes—Fiction.

  4. Family life—Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.N142268Bre 2015 [Fic]—dc23 2014013673

  ISBN 978-1-4814-1911-6 (hc)

  ISBN 978-1-4814-1913-0 (eBook)