Sarah Hughes Biography: Skating to the Stars (Paperback)

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Product Description

Figure skating phenom Sarah Hughes is taking the ice-and the world-by storm. Here, for the first time ever, is the true, unauthorized story of America's newest skating sweetheart as she goes for the gold in the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.

About the Author

Alina Sivorinovsky is a television producer and writer. She has written numerous articles as well as As the Toe Picks: The Skating Lover's Ultimate Trivia Challenge and Inside Figure Skating, and under the name Alina Adams she has written romances for Dell and Avon. Her TV producing credits include "Skates of Gold III." Currently she is a web producer for two official soap opera sites.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Berkley Trade (December 4, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425184641
• ISBN-13: 978-0425184646
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,614,461 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great insight! A superb bio with lots of intriguing info., February 24, 2002

By A Customer

This book gives the WHOLE story about her life and competition leading up to the Olympics gold. It tells about private emotional times in her young life and the training and competitions. There's a nice appendix listing all her placings and some web URLs. I'm glad I got this collector's item before they ran out!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!!!, November 14, 2002

By	Amazon.com Shopper - See all my reviews

It is much better than the other Sarah book by Ruth Ashby! It starts off with Sarah at the 2001 World Championships and chronicles her life better than any other Sarah book could!Then it tells a LOT about her main competitors and ends telling how prepared she is for the 2002 Olympics (which she won!!)
I would definitely give it five stars in my book!!

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome First book!, April 21, 2002

By	Jen (The sneezy Peach, native New Yorker) - See all my reviews

Hi, I saw the book online and so I decided to try and go find it at the local bookstore. I was actually there to see if they had the May issue of International Figure Skating which I was very disappointed to find out they didn't carry. I went ahead and bought the book and I was so happy to get my hands on it, I read the whole thing start to finish in about an hour, stopping to look at the pictures of course :)

The book overall was great! It had her ups and downs thru the years, her fight with her mom's illness, a summer she broke her hand and nearly all her competitions. It had a great look at the skaters Sarah has faced and how she did in her programs. She works so hard and is so dedicated! This is a great book to just sit and read, but its also a wonderful collectors items just like the wheaties I found today hehe :) Thanks for listening~