Text copyright © 2014 by Donna Freitas

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Freitas, Donna.

Gold medal winter / Donna Freitas. — First edition.

pages cm

Summary: Esperanza Flores’s place on the United States Olympic figure skating team has come at the expense of an injured skater, so in addition to the pressure of sudden fame and outsized expectations Espi has to deal with the resentment of her teammates — and their efforts to sabotage her routine.

ISBN-13: 978-0-545-64377-1 (hardcover : alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 0-545-64377-5 (hardcover : alk. paper)

ISBN-13: 978-0-545-64378-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 0-545-64378-3 (pbk. : alk. paper)

[etc.]

1. Women figure skaters — Juvenile fiction. 2. Winter Olympics — Juvenile fiction. 3. Competition (Psychology) — Juvenile fiction. 4. Figure skating stories. [1. Ice skating — Fiction. 2. Winter Olympics — Fiction. 3. Competition (Psychology) — Fiction. 4. Dominican Americans — Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.F8844Gp 2014

813.6 — dc23

2013029144

First edition, January 2014

Cover art © 2014 by Steve Rawlings

Cover design by Elizabeth B. Parisi

e-ISBN 978-0-545-64473-0

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