Growing Outdoors

Basketball is an extraordinary sport to support whole child development. Tony R. Smith showcases key fundamentals for sound player development. Concentrating on essential skills of the game: conditioning, jumping ability, shooting, defense, rebounding, footwork, boxing out, and much more, Smith outlines basics in accessible language. Basketball is a game of mental and physical endurance - this book shows how to gain it all. As a bonus, a section has been added to help players with diet and strength training.

In this charming, thoughtful audiobook, author-illustrator Ellie Peterson explores learning, adventure, and the thousands of the things you can discover outside of a classroom—about the world, about your family, about yourself. Because school is truly wherever you are.

Motivated by her love for the game and inspired by the legendary Jackie Robinson, Mamie Johnson is determined to be a professional baseball pitcher. But in a sport that's determined by white men, there is no place for a black woman. Mamie doesn't give up - from the time she insists on trying out for the all-male, all-white Police Athletic League until she realizes her dream and becomes one of three women to play in the Negro Leagues. Mamie Johnson's life shows that with courage and perseverance one can overcome even the greatest challenges.

In Whistler, British Columbia, dogs can be found riding chairlifts, perched on skiers' shoulders, and even descending from helicopters - all in the race against time to save people caught in the path of an avalanche. Meet Henry, a lovable border collie, and the team of dogs and human partners he works with in the beautiful and sometimes dangerous mountains.

What do you need to go camping? What do you do once you reach the campsite? Learn all about going camping in this age-level-appropriate audiobook!

Raising earthworms is a very simple process if you know how and where to raise them. Many people raise them indoors which is okay, however, you can only raise so many in doors, and you won’t have enough to last a whole fishing season. I am going to teach you how to raise them outdoors, so you can have plenty for you and your friends for the whole season. Indoor bins are usually two feet by two feet and three feet deep.

The Race is a motivational children's book teaching children how to overcome hurdles in life in a positive way. Benedict learns the lessons of losing and not getting what he dreams of. He uses the loss to fuel his training to become the fastest racer in the city.

On the outside he looks like every other football-mad boy of his age. But he isn't. A story of hope and resilience, this gentle, inspiring audiobook tells the tale of Charlie, a little boy who was taken into care when he was very small. Charlie dreams of finding his forever home to share with his sisters. Sometimes he feels scared. Sometimes he wants to scream and cry (and he does, just a little). But he is strong. He is tough.

When they piled into cars and drove through Durham, North Carolina, the members of the Duke University Medical School basketball team only knew that they were going somewhere to play basketball. They didn't know whom they would play against. But when they came face-to-face with their opponents, they quickly realized this secret game was going to make history. Discover the true story of how in 1944, Coach John McLendon orchestrated a secret game between the best players from a white college and his team from the North Carolina College of Negroes at a time of segregation and racism.

This Highlights Listen & Learn! Audio Study, intended for those in grade four, follows Mike Blunt, a smaller-than-average boy who becomes a batboy for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He is constantly teased by the players for being so small. However, one of the players, Roberto Clemente, stands up for him and serves as a role model for how to handle discrimination and prejudice. This audio study presents concepts such as elements of plot and mood, as well as key vocabulary words.

Are you a good teammate? Do you try your best? Do you follow rules and play fair? We don't have to be the best at every sport to have a good time. Trying our best will make the game way more fun! Pairs with the fiction title Dev Tries His Best. Explore these and other ways to be a good sport with these fun books!

In our post-feminist society, nothing is hotter than women who not only do so-called guy things, but take it one step further and do alpha male things, while at the same time still retain their classical femininity. Femininity is changing and women who participate in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) have become the new sex symbols. Through poetry, this work celebrates three well known female MMA stars.

Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert come from completely different places and play tennis in completely different ways. Chrissie is the all-American girl: practiced, poised, with perfect technique. Martina hails from Czechoslovakia, a Communist country, and her game is ruled by emotion. Everything about them is different, except for one thing: they both want to be the best. But as their intense rivalry grows, something else begins to swing into place, and a friendship forms that will outlast all their tennis victories.

Sports are fun! Whether you're playing soccer, T-ball, or something else, this audiobook will prepare you for starting a new sport. Critical thinking questions and other fun features introduce young listeners to the basic building blocks of nonfiction. Let's play ball!

Jazmine goes to summer tennis camp without really wanting to. Sports are just not her thing. Still, she's happy to find her best friend Blanca at the same camp. Even more than that, she discovers she can play pretty well. Now she faces a more important challenge. On the Line is one of five high interest quick listening stories in the Sports Beats series. These fiction stories weave characters' real-life issues around the sports they play: Basketball, baseball, tennis, skiing, and soccer.