Physical: Feats & Failures

by Dona Herweck Rice

Overview

The human body can achieve amazing feats, but with every new physical feat, there are many failures. Readers will learn about some of the most amazing physical feats in history in this inspiring nonfiction title. Readers will learn about sports records, daredevils like Evel Knievel, and the incredible determination that athletes of all kinds have in order to achieve amazing things. Featuring brilliant images and photos, charts, graphs, informational text, and stunning facts, this book will have readers engaged and amazed!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433348709
Publisher:	Teacher Created
Publication date:	09/01/2012
Series:	TIME FOR KIDS®: Informational Text
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	48
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.20(d)
Lexile:	800L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 10 Years

About the Author

Dona does not know which is more fun-learning about the world through science, or writing books for children that tell all about it. She is glad she does not have to decide and can do both!

Table of Contents

One Foot in Front of the Other 4

The Fastest Woman in the World 6

Man or Fish? 10

Legless, Fearless 16

On the Wire 20

Pure Evel 24

Nitro Man 28

Wonder Woman 32

Only if you Try 38

Glossary 42

Index 44

Bibliography 46

More to Explore 47

About the Author 48

Editorial Reviews

Gr 3–5—Covering a wide range of high-interest topics in science, history, sports, vocations, and avocations, these small volumes offer tight, busy-looking mixes of color photos, present-tense overview narratives, boxed facts, and captions, supplemented by various combinations of charts, tables, interviews, open-ended questions, and, where applicable, recipes. Each volume is capped by a current, annotated set of multimedia resources. The biographies present highly idealized, inspirational portraits of their subjects. Aside from Healthy, (in which the old food pyramid is replaced with the newer MyPlate recommendations), the Straight Talk titles are not quite "straight." Both Drugs and Smoking fail to deliver enough information for readers to come to their own conclusions about the topics. More balanced alternatives to the entries in both subseries are available elsewhere. Otherwise these titles are acceptable choices for both assignment use and casual browsing.

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