Hans Brinker has
"Goodness Within"

Hans Brinker is poor, the son of the village idiot, a classic underdog. Generations have come to love his solid Dutch sensibility and compassionate determination to cure his father and make a future for himself as a doctor.

Gretel Brinker is as spritely a heroine as the Victorian heart could desire. Sweet and spirited, she has her eye on the silver skates. But, like a Victorian Tonya Harding, her laces keep breaking.

Peter and Hilda are the pampered children of wealthy families, out on a skating lark with their friends. Yet they take time to show compassion, setting them apart from the run-of-the-windmill rich kids.

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Chapter 1:	Hans and Gretel	Chapter 25:	Leyden
Chapter 2:	Holland	Chapter 26:	The Palace in the Wood
Chapter 3:	The Silver Skates	Chapter 27:	The Merchant Prince and the Sister-Princess
Chapter 4:	Hans and Gretel Find a Friend	Chapter 28:	Through the Hague
Chapter 5:	Shadows in the Home	Chapter 29:	A Day of Rest
Chapter 6:	Sunbeams	Chapter 30:	Homeward Bound
Chapter 7:	Hans Has His Way	Chapter 31:	Boys and Girls
Chapter 8:	Introducing Jacob Poot and His Cousin	Chapter 32:	The Crisis
Chapter 9:	The Festival of Saint Nicholas	Chapter 33:	Gretel and Hilda
Chapter 10:	What the Boys Saw and Did in Amsterdam	Chapter 34:	The Awakening
Chapter 11:	Big Manias and Little Oddities	Chapter 35:	Bones and Tongues
Chapter 12:	On the Way to Haarlem	Chapter 36:	A New Alarm
Chapter 13:	A Catastrophe	Chapter 37:	The Father's Return
Chapter 14:	Hans	Chapter 38:	The Thousand Guilders
Chapter 15:	Homes	Chapter 39:	Glimpses
Chapter 16:	Haarlem--The Boys Hear Voices	Chapter 40:	Looking For Work
Chapter 17:	The Man With Four Heads	Chapter 41:	The Mysterious Watch
Chapter 18:	Friends in Need	Chapter 42:	A Discovery
Chapter 19:	On the Canal	Chapter 43:	The Race
Chapter 20:	Jacob Poot Changes the Plan	Chapter 44:	Joy in the Cottage
Chapter 21:	Mynheer Kleef and His Bill of Fare	Chapter 45:	Mysterious Disappearance of Thomas Higgs
Chapter 22:	The Red Lion Becomes Dangerous	Chapter 46:	Broad Sunshine
Chapter 23:	Before the Court	Chapter 47:	Conclusion
Chapter 24:	The Beleaguered Cities

Figure Skating History—Legends: Irina Rodnina

Figure Skating Facts, history, and trivia about the people, places and personalities that makes figure skating so cool.

The only female pairs figure skater to win Olympic gold medals with two different partners is Russian sensation Irina Rodnina. She won her first gold in 1972 with Alexei Ulanov and her second and third gold in 1976 and 1980, respectively, with Alexander Zaitsev.

Rodnina's figure skating career reads like a soap opera. She split with Ulanov because he fell in love with another Russian pairs figure skater, Ludmila Smirnova, and wanted to form a team with her. After auditioning some 100 new figure skating partners, Rodnina chose Zaitsev. With a height difference of nearly a foot, the two developed dazzling lifts and also introduced side-by-side double Axels. They married in 1975 and briefly interrupted their ice skating in 1979 for the birth of a son. The couple later divorced.

Rodnina spent several years coaching in the United States. Her star pupils were the Czech pairs figure skating team of Radka Kovarikova and Rene Novotny, whom she coached to a International Skating Union world title in 1995. During her time coaching figure skating at Ice Castle in Lake Arrowhead, Calif., she helped future Olympic bronze medalist Timothy Goebel with his stroking and coached brother and sister pairs team Johnny and Tiffeny Steigler before their break. Rodnina later returned to Russia to live and to work on a new skating facility.

—Beth Braccio Hering

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Hans Brinker has"Goodness Within"

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Hans Brinker has
"Goodness Within"