Books with author Christopher Blomquist

This fact-filled series can help elementary social studies students learn about the diverse countries and cultures of the world. Correlated directly to the social studies curriculum, each volume includes social, political, geographic, economic, and historic characteristics of the featured country. Primary source images, documents, and artifacts bring the world's unique nations and people into your students' world and offer an invaluable resource for country research and reports. Introduce your students to South America's String Bean! From the Atacama Desert to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, Chile's regions have geographic features that include deserts, lake country, forests, pampas, volcanoes, and glaciers. Primary source images such as Pedro de Valdivia's 1541 document establishing Chile as a Spanish colony, an example of Mapuche weaving, and a petroglyph, called the Birdman, from Easter Island, will introduce readers to Chile's fascinating story.

This fact-filled series can help elementary social studies students learn about the diverse countries and cultures of the world. Correlated directly to the social studies curriculum, each volume includes social, political, geographic, economic, and historic characteristics of the featured country. Primary source images, documents, and artifacts bring the world's unique nations and people into your students' world and offer an invaluable resource for country research and reports. This book on the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland offers readers a look at Stonehenge on England's Salisbury Plain, the Magna Carta of 1215, which curbed the monarchy's power, and more. From its majestic Scottish countryside to its stately English architecture to its unrivaled contributions in literature and music, students will be amazed by the fascinating journey into the rich cultural and artistic heritage of this nation of islands.

This fact-filled series can help elementary social studies students learn about the diverse countries and cultures of the world. Correlated directly to the social studies curriculum, each volume includes social, political, geographic, economic, and historic characteristics of the featured country. Primary source images, documents, and artifacts bring the world's unique nations and people into your students' world and offer an invaluable resource for country research and reports. Spain, a land of many mountains, is the second-largest country in western Europe. Spain became a mighty1 world power in the 1500s, thanks to explorers such as Francisco Pizarro and Hernan Cortes, who set up Spanish colonies in the Americas Readers will he introduced to Spain's government, which is a parliamentary monarchy, its economy, and its Semana Santa religious festival. Popular with tourists. Spain has been an important member of the European Union since 1986.

Skateboarding has a language all its own. Readers will be captivated by descriptions of the ollie, kickturn, fakie, and nine-hundred--all tricks that appear at the X Games. This action-packed book explains how skaters qualify for and compete in the Games. An interview with Andy Macdonald offers readers a firsthand look at what it's like to be a star skateboarder.

The future of roller-skating is here and it's in-line skating. Skaters compete for medals and more than $1 million in Games prize money. This book brings the competition to life in full color with explanations of tricks and the process of qualifying for and competing in the Games. Leading aggressive in-line skater Fabiola da Silva-- winner of seven Games medals--offers her perspective on being an X-Games athlete.

Full Cycle - winner of Best Inspirational Fiction in the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Awards - tells the story of eleven-year-old Alex Peterson, whose physical disability makes him one of the least-athletic boys in his school. Still, Alex dreams of doing something unimaginable: the 200-mile, one-day Seattle to Portland bicycle ride. He soon discovers that if he's to reach even the starting line, he must overcome more than his physical disability. He must also find a way to revive his father's own long-dormant interest in cycling, and convince his dad to join forces with him, before they can achieve together what neither would on his own.