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Marvelous Mabel: Figure Skating Superstar

By Crystal Hubbard
Illustrators Illustrated by Alleanna Harris Edition

Hardcover edition

Publisher Lee & Low Books Imprint Lee & Low ISBN

9781620149560

Marvelous Mabel: Figure Skating Superstar

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Discrimination: Racial Insensitivity/Racism

After watching ice skaters glide and spin at a rink in Central Park, Mabel Fairbanks was determined to learn to skate. But in the 1930s, many places didn’t allow Black skaterson the ice, so Mabel practiced on a homemade rink in her bedroom! There she learned how to perform sharp turns and whizzing spins of her own creation.



It wasn’t long before Mabel needed more room to practice skating, and she returned to one of the rinks that denied her entrance. This time she refused to take no for ananswer. She knew that if they just let her on the ice, she would be the most marvelous skater anyone had ever seen. And she was right, as her trailblazing talent continues to influence the sport today.



Written and illustrated with warmth and spirit, this is the true story of how Mabel Fairbanks’s determination and grit led her to become America’s first black skating superstar.



Afterword. Selected bibliography. Full-color illustrations were rendered
digitally.
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