This series offers an exciting glimpse into the world's most daring sports and the athletes who take part in them.

Provides an overview of skateboarding including technique, equipment, guidelines, resources, and safety concerns.

Discusses basic skateboarding techniques, board choice and maintenance, safety gear, and terminology, and presents step-by-step instructions for more than ten tricks.

A kindergarten-level introduction to the self-propelled vehicles known as skateboards, covering their purpose, parts, and operation, and such defining features as their decks and trucks.

Introduces the history, fundamentals, lingo, styles, and legends of skateboarding.

From the street to the pipe and all the way to the luge, this book points the way to extreme fun right in a young reader's neighborhood. This action-packed guide shares the excitement and examines the special moves of street, vert, downhill, street luge, and mountain boarding. Kids can also learn more about skateboard competitions, including X-Game and Gravity Game events.

Middle-schooler Nate Wright vies against his rival, the "perfect" Artur, to win the grand prize of a customized skateboard in their scout troop contest.