Entering Grade Four
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SPORTS
It's A Numbers Game series by James Buckley, Jr.
Basketball Numbers are everywhere in basketball--from the dimensions of the court to the points you can score to the digits on each player's jersey. Discover how to improve your bounce pass and chest pass with geometry and physics. Colorful graphics explain the math behind the sport, and cool photos make you feel like you're right on the court. (nonfiction) |
Screech Owls series by Roy MacGregor
Book 1: Mystery at Lake Placid Travis and his pals in the Screech Owl hockey team are excited to be travelling to an international peewee tournament, skating on Olympic size ice and impressing scouts in the stands. Then a series of mishaps begins to add up to sabotage. How can the team figure out how to stop what's happening before their final game? |
A Sporting Chance : How Paralympics Founder Ludwig Guttmann Saved Lives With Sports by Lori Alexander
Before World War II, having a broken spine was often a death sentence. Dr. Guttmann, a Jewish neurologist who had escaped Germany, began working with paralyzed British patients. Soon he had them up in wheelchairs and playing competitive sports. (nonfiction) |
Sports Illustrated Kids: Goats series by Bruce Berglund
Baseball Goats: The Greatest Athletes of All Time How do you pick the best athletes of all time? You use stats, history and hunches. Do you agree with the ones chosen for this book, like Sandy Koufax, Ted Williams and Satchel Paige? Are they really the greatest? |
Three Strike Summer by Skyler Schrempp
Times are bad; the rains won't come and the family has lost their farm and had to travel to California to pick peaches. Gloria can deal with that and the smelly, dirty shack they have to live in. What she really wants, though, is to play on the secret all-boys baseball team, and neither boys, secretivive grown-ups or company rules are going to stop her. |
Zayd Saleem, Chasing the Dream series by Hena Khan
Power Forward Fourth grader Zayd wants to be the first Pakistani-American on the NBA. First though, he has to convince his parents that basketball is at least as important as playing violin, and he has to find a way off the D team to the Gold team to be with his friend Alex. |