Skating Over Thin Ice (Red Deer Press)

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Date

2018

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Genre

Imogen St. Pierre, a teen musical prodigy from Montreal, faces an uncertain future and finds support, encouragement and connection through her friendship with two classmates - a clever Swedish tech-wiz and a disgraced junior hockey star. Music, hockey, friendship and a hint of romance.

"This quiet novel follows Imogen’s slow growth without resorting to loud emotional outbursts or jarring strife, and the relationship between Nathan and Imogen is more friendship than romance. Different and moving." - Kirkus Reviews

Shortlisted for the Forest of Reading Red Maple Fiction Award (2019)
USBBY Outstanding International Book List (2019)

About the Author

Jean Mills

JEAN MILLS grew up in Willowdale, a leafy suburb of Toronto, where she cheered for the Leafs, read endless piles of books and started writing stories at a very young age. At age twelve, when the local North York Public Library included three of her poems in an anthology and introduced her as “a writer to watch”, Jean knew her career path was set: she was going to be an author.

Jean has been writing and editing professionally for over thirty years. Her essays, reviews, features and children’s stories have appeared in publications across Canada. She’s written material for the educational market, is a former college Communications teacher and recently left her job on the Media & Communications team at Curling Canada to focus on her own creative writing for young readers.