Skating on Skim Ice: The Life and Times of Richard Andrew Gartee

by Richard Gartee

Dick Gartee is a time traveler who has journeyed ninety-three years from the past--one day at a time.

During the Great Depression, the only hockey puck in the neighborhood slides onto thin skim-ice and nine-year-old Dick heroically skates after it.When his father leaves his mother for another woman, plucky thirteen-year-old Dick takes a night job in a bakery to help his mother make ends meet.At seventeen, with World War II raging, he enlists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 099067682X
• ISBN13: 9780990676829
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Lake and Emerald Publications
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"