Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates

by Dodge, Mary Mapes

• ISBN13: 9780486428420
• ISBN10: 0486428427
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-28
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Set against a backdrop of frozen canals in a winter wonderland, the year's most exciting event in a little Dutch village is about to take place. But will Hans Brinker and his sister Gretel, with their hand-carved wooden skates, be able to compete against their well-trained young friends who own fine steel blades?

Table of Contents

Hans and Gretel	1	(4)
Holland	5	(9)
The Silver Skates	14	(5)
Hans and Gretel Find a Friend	19	(7)
Shadows in the Home	26	(7)
Sunbeams	33	(4)
Hans Has His Way	37	(4)
Introducing Jacob Poot and His Cousin Ben	41	(6)
The Festival of Saint Nicholas	47	(8)
What the Boys Saw and Did in Amsterdam	55	(9)
Big Manias and Little Oddities	64	(7)
On the Way to Haarlem	71	(4)
A Catastrophe	75	(4)
Hans	79	(5)
Homes	84	(6)
Haarlem---the Boys Hear Voices	90	(6)
The Man with Four Heads	96	(5)
Friends in Need	101	(7)
On the Canal	108	(6)
Jacob Poot Changes the Plan	114	(7)
Mynheer Kleef and His Bill of Fare	121	(3)
The Red Lion Becomes Dangerous	124	(11)
Before the Court	135	(3)
The Beleaguered Cities	138	(5)
Leyden	143	(6)
The Palace and the Wood	149	(3)
The Merchant Prince and the Sister-Princess	152	(12)
Through The Hague	164	(7)
A Day of Rest	171	(3)
Homeward Bound	174	(4)
Boys and Girls	178	(6)
The Crisis	184	(6)
Gretel and Hilda	190	(6)
The Awakening	196	(3)
Bones and Tongues	199	(4)
A New Alarm	203	(4)
The Father's Return	207	(4)
The Thousand Guilders	211	(5)
Glimpses	216	(4)
Looking for Work	220	(5)
The Fairy Godmother	225	(5)
The Mysterious Watch	230	(7)
A Discovery	237	(7)
The Race	244	(15)
Joy in the Cottage	259	(7)
Mysterious Disappearance of Thomas Higgs	266	(3)
Broad Sunshine	269	(5)
Conclusion	274