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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sports are all about great strategy and overcoming obstacles, right? Not always! Sometimes failures in sports are as exciting as successes. Learn about the biggest fails-from an NFL team blowing a 35-3 lead in a playoff game to the Boston Red Sox selling Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. Discover how athletes and teams have dealt with failure and how they've improved after their mistakes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
America's black boxing champion. Hitler's favorite athlete. And a world at war.
Joe Louis was born on an Alabama cotton patch and raised in a Detroit ghetto. Max Schmeling grew up in poverty in Hamburg, Germany. For both boys, boxing was a way out and a way up. Little did they know someday they would face each other in a pair of battles that would capture the imagination of the world.
In America, Joe was a symbol of hope to a nation of blacks yearning...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Joe Louis to Gordie Howe, Arnold Palmer to Pel�, Michelle Kwan to Serena Williams and many more, readers will be introduced to sports legends throughout history. Organized chronologically, 100 Athletes Who Shaped Sports History offers a look at the incredible lives, record-breaking achievements, and remarkable dedication of athletes who have inspired countless fans all over the world--
Publisher
Triumph Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This 128-page collection features the brightest stars in sports, past and present. The editors of Sports Illustrated Kids profile the top stars in sports history, with thrilling sports photography and age-appropriate writing that Sports Illustrated Kids is famous for. This fully updated edition includes today's stars alongside sports' all-time greats--from Michael Jordan to LeBron James, Tom Brady to Patrick Mahomes, Mia Hamm to Megan Rapinoe, Babe...
Author
Publisher
VV Kids
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
�Sab�ias que en una edici�on de los Juegos Ol�impicos se disput�o una prueba de nataci�on bajo el agua? �O que Leo Messi ha ganado 32 t�itulos (todos, menos la Copa del Mundo) y que Michael Phelps es el atleta m�as condecorado de todos los tiempos? �Y que Nadia Com�aneci obtuvo el primer diez de la gimnasia art�istica? En este libro encontrar�as curiosidades sobre los deportes que hoy son m�as populares, sobre sus or�igenes,...
9) My encyclopedia of very important sports: for little athletes and fans who want to know everything
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
This exciting book for children is packed with fun facts about a range of popular sports such as football, karate, badminton, and skiing, as well as ones you might never have heard of like biathlon or cheese rolling. Whether you're a fan of team sports, winter sports, water sports, extreme sports, and even board games such as chess and go, this book has it all. My Encyclopedia of Very Important Sport also celebrates the unique talents, lives, and...
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