Silver Skates

Mary Mapes Dodge 1831 – 1905 – an American writer and publisher. Her books had a significant impact on American children's literature. Silver Skates is her most famous novel, which tells the story of Dutch teenagers in the mid-19th century. The entertaining melodramatic plot intertwines with legends and historical facts and extraordinarily vivid descriptions of the boys' journey on skates through the canals of Holland. For middle school age.