Growing Outdoors

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!

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!

Pete the Kitty loves art class. But when the project is to go outside and make art from nature, Pete isn’t sure what to create. Then inspiration strikes and Pete realizes that nature art is cooler than he ever imagined!

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.

Written with author and TV writer Ivor Baddiel, in this fun and fact-packed book, Gary Lineker shares 50 of his favourite football stories that highlight the many awe-inspiring, heart-warming and eye-opening moments that have changed the game—and sometimes the world—forever. From pioneering players, trailblazing managers and incredible tales from both on and off the pitch, this book contains everything you ever wanted to know about the beautiful game.

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.

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!

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.

Stephen Curry is a professional Golden State Warriors basketball player. He’s considered one of the greatest shooters of all time, but his journey wasn’t always easy. He was told many times that he was too little and too weak to play at any level. The Adventures of Stephen Curry will show you the world through the eyes of a young Curry who wanted to be an amazing basketball player just like his dad. What challenges did Stephen have to overcome? How did he manage? How did he prevail? And how did he get so good?

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.

"¡Cambia las reglas! La idea de que hay cosas "para niñas" o "para niños" es del pasado; aquí, ¡nos divertimos todas y todos! En esta guía ilustrada conocerás a mujeres increíbles a quienes el deporte les cambió la vida y que, a su vez, cambiaron el mundo. Como Bobbi Gibb, ¿sabías que se disfrazó de hombre para colarse en la maratón de Boston en los sesenta? O Laura Serrano, la fabulosa madre del boxeo en México, que ha roto barreras dentro y fuera del ring. También te hablaré sobre cómo hacer del ejercicio una actividad cero aburrida."

Most fans don't know how far the Jewish presence in baseball extends beyond a few famous players such as Greenberg, Rosen, Koufax, Holtzman, Green, Ausmus, Youkilis, Braun, and Kinsler. In fact, that presence extends to the baseball commissioner Bud Selig, labor leaders Marvin Miller and Don Fehr, owners Jerry Reinsdorf and Stuart Sternberg, officials Theo Epstein and Mark Shapiro, sportswriters Murray Chass, Ross Newhan, Ira Berkow, and Roger Kahn, and even famous Jewish baseball fans like Alan Dershowitz and Barney Frank.

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.