This beginners' guide to ice skating includes chapters on the first time on ice, ice safety, skating backward, curving, circles, figure skating, and other techniques.
Among the authors of this highly acclaimed series are Laura Ingalls Wilder Award winner Milton Meltzer, Coretta Scott King Award winner James Haskins and noted author Raymond Bial. The series itself focuses on major population shifts in America and the driving forces behind them. The authors' vivid accounts are given additional immediacy with the inclusion of excerpts from diaries, newspaper articles and letters.
Presents dramatic accounts of UFO sightings, transcripts of radio recordings from planes and ships lost in the Bermuda Triangle, and detailed descriptions from explorers who have encountered the Abominable Snowperson
A biography of the Boston Red Sox player who was the first man in baseball to win the double honor of Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player in one season.
Offers the story of the many battles that were fought between the new emigrants to North America and the Native Americans as the new arrivals continued to move westward in great masses through Native American lands during the years of 1840 and 1876.
"This series provides comprehensive information on the presidents of the United States and places each within his historical and cultural context. It also explores the formative events of his times and how he responds"--Provided by publisher.
An account of the Civil War from its causes to its final battles including discussions of dominent figures of the era, strategies of major battles, and brutal sieges which marked this conflict.