Molly Duff watches the clock on the classroom wall—tick, tick, tick. Nearly three o'clock. Time for Pee Wee Scouts! Troop 23 runs out of the classroom and down the stairs—clop, clop, clop.
Tuesday is their meeting day. Molly can't wait. Today Mrs. Peters, their troop leader, will show them how to bake cookies to earn a cookie badage. And next week is the big Skating Party!
But Molly has never baked or skated before. A cookie badge or a skating...

A child putting on in-line roller skates for the first time must make them wait until they are ready to go straight.

When Kate gets new, big kids' ice skates and gives her old ones to her little sister, she is surprised that the new ones are much harder to use.

Pearl's birthday skates have a single blade and learning to use them is harder than she expects.

When Daddy Rabbit announces the lake is hard enough for skating, Bella worries about what could happen, but as she hesitantly tries, she finds her worries are all for naught.

Louise the stinkbug must face the bullying cockroach Kiki in a skating contest.

When her crush Brandon reveals that the animal shelter where he volunteers is in danger of being closed, Nikki and her friends enter an ice skating competition to help raise money, an effort that is compromised by an interfering Mackenzie.

Tim is afraid he will never be able to ice skate until late one night when he goes out to the lake and a great big furry snow bear helps him learn.

Penguin's friends arrive at his house to invite him to Paula skating birthday party. Penguin doesn't know how to skate, so his friends teach him.

Champ demonstrates his ice skating skills.