[PDF] The Fastest Boy In The World eBook

Author : Elizabeth Laird
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 38,8 MB
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 144726732X

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Eleven-year-old Solomon loves to run! The great athletes of the Ethiopian national team are his heroes and he dreams that one day he will be a gold-medal-winning athlete like them, in spite of his ragged shorts and bare feet. When his grandfather announces that he's going to take Solomon to Addis Ababa, Solomon cannot believe his ears. A trip to the capital? It's unfathomable. Solomon's joy is increased when he realizes that the Ethiopian running team will be doing a victory parade through the city that day. Maybe he'll get a glimpse of Haile Gebrselassie or Derartu Tulu?! But Solomon's grandfather has other plans. As Solomon follows him through the big, overwhelming streets, he learns something he cannot believe. The strict old man is a war hero who once risked his life to save a friend and has been in hiding ever since. When grandfather collapses, Solomon knows that getting help from his village is up to him. It's a twenty-mile run from the city to home, and grandfather's life hangs in the balance. Can the small bare-footed runner with the big heart do it? Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal, The Fastest Boy in the World by Elizabeth Laird is the inspiring story of a small Ethiopian runner with a very big heart.

Author : Chris Stead
Publisher :
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 49,5 MB
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781925638523

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Adventure is in the air when Willy Nilly and his dad decide to build a soapbox together. However, Willy's wild imagination gets the better of him when he tries to think of how to get his soapbox to go faster. His creativity backfires with hilarious results as Willy Nilly navigates his speeding soapbox through all the obstacles in his home town.

Author : Bill Gutman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 2001-02-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 074342106X

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Race for the record! At the Sydney Games, Marion Jones strove to become the first person ever to win five gold medals in track and field at a single Olympics, making headlines for simply believeing she could do it. Driven to succeed at a very early age, Marion won multiple titiles at the Junior National Championships and set a junior record in the 200 meters. A multisport athlete, she helped lead the University of North Carolina women's basketball team to a national championship during her freshman year and also competed in track and field, until an injury forced her to reevaluate her priorities. Refocused on her track career, Marion quickly became the woman to beat, racking up an impressive thirty-five wims of the thiry-six events she entred in 1998. And after another injury sidelined her hopes of winning four gold medal at the 1999 World Championships, marion fought back in the 2000 season and is once again dominating the field. Get the full story of this amazing runner's race for the record, from her childhood dreams of gold medals to her tough choice between two sports and her determined drive to become the fastest woman in the world.

Author : Iain Borden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1472583477

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Skateboarding is both a sport and a way of life. Creative, physical, graphic, urban and controversial, it is full of contradictions – a billion-dollar global industry which still retains its vibrant, counter-cultural heart. Skateboarding and the City presents the only complete history of the sport, exploring the story of skate culture from the surf-beaches of '60s California to the latest developments in street-skating today. Written by a life-long skater who also happens to be an architectural historian, and packed through with full-colour images – of skaters, boards, moves, graphics, and film-stills – this passionate, readable and rigorously-researched book explores the history of skateboarding and reveals a vivid understanding of how skateboarders, through their actions, experience the city and its architecture in a unique way.

Author : Amanda Ripley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 37,22 MB
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 145165443X

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Following three teenagers who chose to spend one school year living in Finland, South Korea, and Poland, a literary journalist recounts how attitudes, parenting, and rigorous teaching have revolutionized these countries' education results.

Author : Daniel James Brown
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 12,11 MB
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0593512308

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The inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Directed by George Clooney—exclusively in theaters December 25, 2023! The #1 New York Times bestselling true story about the American rowing triumph of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin—from the author of Facing the Mountain For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant. It was an unlikely quest from the start. With a team composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University of Washington’s eight-oar crew team was never expected to defeat the elite teams of the East Coast and Great Britain, yet they did, going on to shock the world by defeating the German team rowing for Adolf Hitler. The emotional heart of the tale lies with Joe Rantz, a teenager without family or prospects, who rows not only to regain his shattered self-regard but also to find a real place for himself in the world. Drawing on the boys’ own journals and vivid memories of a once-in-a-lifetime shared dream, Brown has created an unforgettable portrait of an era, a celebration of a remarkable achievement, and a chronicle of one extraordinary young man’s personal quest.

Author : Kathleen Krull
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,42 MB
Release : 2000-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780152020989

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A biography of Wilma Rudolph, an African-American who overcame crippling polio as a child to become the first woman to win three gold medals in track during a single Olympics.

Author : Mark Lujan Trujillo
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 13,84 MB
Release : 2006-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1425902073

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Have you ever wondered what goes on in the mind of a child? Issues such as divorce, poverty, and homelessness are touched on in this story of one child's magnificent understanding of our crazy, mixed up world. Eugene, wise beyond his years, plays mentor to a coping, frustrated father, and supportive friend to a struggling yet whimsical mother. Having lived in an apartment all his life, Eugene dreams of one day living in a "real" house where he thinks only rich people live. But he especially hopes to wake up one morning to find a friendlier, much more caring world. Ultimately, Eugene is bogged down by an unrelenting, harsh world where nothing goes his way as he is left with little hope; until something magical happens that changes his world forever. Can one child make a difference? The "richest boy in the world" will certainly do just that!