Marvelous Mabel: Figure Skating Superstar Book cover type:Paperback In the backyard is a

In the backyard is a locked shed from which strange sounds emerge

determined to catch up to his old friend (now foe)

are on the road through the kingdom of Aluria again after a hard-won first battle against the formidable Night Empress

Montell argues that in the modern information age

are a couple straight out of a fairy tale

Marvelous Mabel: Figure Skating Superstar Book cover type:Paperback In the backyard is aMeet Mabel Fairbanks, the skating superstar who became the first Black athlete inducted into the US Figure Skating Hall of Fame. After watching ice skaters glide and spin at a rink in Central Park, Mabel Fairbanks was determined to learn to skate. But in the 1930s, many places didn't allow Black skaters on the ice, so Mabel practiced on a homemade rink in her bedroom! There she learned how to perform sharp turns and whizzing spins of her own creation.