White Boots

Noel Streatfeild

HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 2008 - Juvenile Fiction - 285 pages

"If you pass your Inter-Silver, I'll tell Aunt Claudia that I don't want to work with you any more." Harriet is told that she must take up ice-skating in order to improve her health. She isn't much good at it, until she meets Lalla Moore, a young skating star. Now Harriet is getting better and better on the ice, and Lalla doesn't like it. Does Harriet want to save their friendship more than she wants to skate?

About the author

Noel Streatfeild, the plain middle child between two talented and pretty sisters, trained at RADA and acted for nine years before writing Ballet Shoes, an instant bestseller, in 1936. As vicarage daughter, factory girl, actress, model, social worker, writer, and crusader for good books, Noel touched many aspects of life. Her experiences enriched her stories, which were so popular that, by her eightieth birthday, she had earned herself the title of 'a national monument'. She died in 1986.

Bibliographic information

• Title: White Boots; Essential Modern Classics Series; Puffin Books. no. PS188
• Author: Noel Streatfeild
• Edition: illustrated, revised
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 2008
• ISBN: 000727002X, 9780007270026
• Length: 285 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Classics; Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Friendship; Juvenile Fiction / Sports & Recreation / Ice Skating