Learn all about the Women's National Basketball Association. Discover fascinating facts, from record-breaking stars to winning teams and important positions.
Learn all about the National Hockey League. Discover fascinating facts, from record-breaking stars to winning teams and important positions.
Learn all about the National Football League. Discover fascinating facts, from record-breaking stars to winning teams and important positions.
Learn all about the National Basketball Association. Discover fascinating facts, from record-breaking stars to winning teams and important positions.
Learn all about Major League Baseball. Discover fascinating facts, from record-breaking stars to winning teams and important positions.
Learn all about Major League Soccer. Discover fascinating facts, from record-breaking stars to winning teams and important positions.
Have you ever wanted to be a soccer goalie? Learn about this position and what it takes to be the best. Are you ready to be a great goalie on the field? Includes a support page of teaching tips for caregivers and teachers. Downloadable Teacher's Notes available.
Have you ever wanted to be a lacrosse midfielder? Learn about this position and what it takes to be the best. Are you ready to be a great midfielder on the field? Includes a support page of teaching tips for caregivers and teachers. Downloadable Teacher's Notes available.
Have you ever wanted to be a hockey goalie? Learn about this position and what it takes to be the best. Are you ready to be a great goalie on the ice? Includes a support page of teaching tips for caregivers and teachers. Downloadable Teacher's Notes available.
Have you ever wanted to be a wide receiver? Learn about this position and what it takes to be the best. Are you ready to be a great receiver on the football field? Includes a support page of teaching tips for caregivers and teachers. Downloadable Teacher's Notes available.
Have you ever wanted to be a running back? Learn about this position and what it takes to be the best. Are you ready to be a great running back on the football field? Includes a support page of teaching tips for caregivers and teachers. Downloadable Teacher's Notes available.
Have you ever wanted to be a catcher? Learn about this position and what it takes to be the best. Are you ready to be a great catcher on the baseball field? Includes a support page of teaching tips for caregivers and teachers. Downloadable Teacher's Notes available.
How did soccer originate? When was the game first added to the Olympics? These are questions answered in Score! The Story of Soccer. This book provides a historical look at the sports development from ancient times through its explosion in Europe to its huge popularity in North America today.
Even a shallow pool can be dangerous if you don't take care! Come inside Safety Around Water and learn how to keep safe and have fun at the lake, swimming pool or pond.
Pounding hooves, the roar of the crowds, muscles tightening, and then - the leap! Experience the excitement and thrill of competitive Steeplechase in the latest book in the Horsing Around series, Steeplechase. You too can be a champion!
Are you longing to mount up and hit the trail? Trail Riding, the latest book in the Horsing Around series, explores the sport of competitive trail riding from head to tail. Learn the tips, the tricks, the rules and rides -- and most importantly, how to finish - a winner.
Hold on to your cowboy hats and prepare for a wild read! In this book, you'll learn all about the bucking horses, lively livestock, and daring riders of the rodeo world. You'll read about roping, riding, racing, wrestling, and more! You'll also discover the breeds of rodeo horses, how riders handle and care for their animals, and how cattle herding became a rough-and-tumble sport.
Cross Country and Endurance takes readers into the world of cross country and endurance competitions, which test the stamina, riding, and jumping abilities of the horse and rider. The text is clear and easy to read, providing both history and rules of the sport. Exciting, engaging photographs and informative diagrams accompany the text.
A competitive swimmer in Syria, Yusra Mardini never let go of her Olympic dream, even when civil war made it too difficult to train in her country. In 2016, she was allowed to compete in the Rio Olympics as part of a special team for refugees. This was only months after making a daring crossing of the Mediterranean Sea in a sinking boat that she helped tow to shore. Dozens of lives were saved on the voyage. Still training, Mardini also acts as a spokesperson and educator for the United Nations High Commission on Refugees.
American gymnast Simone Biles wowed the world at the 2016 Rio Olympics by winning four gold medals. The first female gymnast to earn three consecutive all-around titles, Biles has been listed on TIME magazine's list of 100 Most Influential People, authored a book on her life, and won an ESPY award for best female athlete in 2017. Her determination carried her through an unstable home life as a young child to become someone who wants to inspire others to lead a healthy and happy lifestyle.
When doctors told her parents that she may never walk again, no one could have imagined that Wilma Rudolph would grow up to become the world’s fastest woman. This awe-inspiring book shows how, with grace, perseverance, and dedication, young Wilma used her inner strength to overcome physical disabilities caused by polio to win three gold medals for the USA in track and field at the 1960 Olympics. A sports superstar and an icon worldwide, her legacy continues to inspire youth and African-American communities today.
What can you serve but never eat? A volleyball! When your team is down and out, sometimes the only thing you have is humor. Using sports jokes, puns, riddles, and rhymes, this riotous book helps readers learn how to understand the culture of humor and how to use it in their own writing.
Research suggests that children who develop locomotor, balance, and manipulative skills at a young age are more likely to participate in physical activities throughout their lives. This action-packed title introduces these fundamental movement skills and provides readers with fun ways to incorporate them into their everyday activities.
Fun pictograms and infographics about extreme sports make learning about math topics such as ratios, area, percentages, averages, and angles easy and fun. In this book, readers are presented with scenarios in a number of extreme sports and use their mathematical skills while skyrunning, BASE jumping, ziplining, ice climbing, and racing motocross. Math puzzles and exercises help children build confidence in their math skills.
This exciting book makes you a math problem solver by putting you into situations faced by people who work in sports and sports-related businesses. Math is an important part of many jobs involved in athletics. Three exciting stories lead to a problem you must solve using math. A toolbox section helps take you through similar examples and provides math exercises you can do that will help give you a better understanding of how to solve the problem in the story.
