Bobby Orr and the Hand-me-down Skates

Bobby Orr and the Hand-me-down SkatesBy: Kara Kootstra, Bobby Orr Illustrator: Jennifer Phelan Even hockey legends start with hand me downs. A beautifully illustrated true childhood story about hockey great Bobby Orr. Bobby eats, sleeps and breathes hockey. So when his birthday is coming up, he only wants one thing: new skates. He's seen the exact pair he wants in the shop window: sparkling blades, shiny leather, clean new laces tied in perfect bows. But when Bobby opens his gift, he's

his own kind branded him the Betrayer

and for the first time in years he's alone

'A thrilling and passionately indignant trawl through vanity's most polluted depths'

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the landscape had been altered beyond recognition

Drawing these four characters together in a story of shocking and disturbing revelations

Hamming was as much a teacher as a scientist

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Olivia's effort to uncover the truth places her in the crosshairs of old and powerful forces

she still holds on to the childhood hope that his magical home truly exists

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