For most of her thirteen years, Ariana Gold has been focused on living up to her mother's legacy as a figure skater, but when her father's money is lost in the stock market two months before the World Junior Championships, it looks like she will not be able to go--so the girls come up with a plan to make enough money to send the team, but a rival's parents try to ensure that their daughter will go in Ariana's place.

Thirteen-year-old hockey goalie Rallo wants desparately to make the St. Sebastian team and go to the 14U National Bantam Tournament, but there are other contenders, and one of them is a hulking fourteen-year-old bully who is willing to do anything to sabotage rivals, including arranging "accidents"--but Rollo has an unexpected ally in Mr. Fairbank, the manager of the rink, and Sawchuk, Mr. Fairbank's dog.