Skating on Skim Ice

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 in the Navy and rises from gunner mate to payro...