Libby is a fine figure skater, but she's not keen about playing hockey when her brothers ask her to be their goalie. She comes to discover the two sports have more in common than she realized. The Ice Rink connects to Ice Hockey from the Nonfiction Classics Series.

“This is a joyful, spirited gem of a book, as bracing and glorious as a perfect stretch of ice.” –Newbery Honor author Joyce Sidman With the first ice—a skim on a sheep pail so thin it breaks when touched—one family’s winter begins in earnest. Next comes ice like panes of glass. And eventually, skating ice! Take a literary skate over field ice and streambed, through sleeping orchards and beyond. The first ice, the second ice, the third ice . . . perfect ice . . . the last ice . . . Twelve kinds of ice are carved into twenty nostalgic vignettes, illustrated in elegantly scratched detail by the award-winning Barbara McClintock.

As much as one-tenth of the world’s oceans are covered with sea ice, or frozen ocean water, at some point during the annual cycle. Sea ice thus plays an important, often defining, role in the natural environment and the global climate system. This book is a global look at the changes in sea ice and the tools and techniques used to measure and record those changes. The first comprehensive research done on sea-ice field techniques, this volume will be indispensable for the study of northern sea ice and a must-have for scientists in the field of climate change research.

Includes specifications for constructing field ice boxes, as well as best practices for usage. The ice box was designed by Bureau of Land Management wildlife biologists and carpenter from Oregon, as a means to keep specimens frozen while conducting wildlife inventories.

Photography book of Minnesota Hockey Rinks