Title: A Leap Ahead (Silver Blades)
First published: July 1, 1996
Description: Amber Armstrong is only eleven, but she can already skate as well as -- even better than -- the older girls in Silver Blades. The only problem is that the other skaters still treat her like a baby.

So Amber decides to take the senior-level skating test. She'll be the youngest skater ever to pass, and then the other girls will have to stop treating her like a little kid.

Amber is sure her plan will work. But is she headed for success, or for total disaster?
Subjects: Self-acceptance, Juvenile fiction, Children: Grades 4-6