Water Sports

Book Features: <BR>- Ages 8-11, Grades 3-5, Guided Reading Level U, Lexile 770L <BR>- 32 pages, 7 inches x 9 inches<BR>- Simple, easy-to-read pages with full-color pictures<BR>- Includes vocabulary list and review activities<BR>- Reading/teaching tips and index includedLife Of A Champion: In Women in Sports: Stephanie Gilmore, your 3rd through 5th grade reader will learn about the courage and passion it took Gilmore to become a 7-time World Surf League champion and a member of the Australian Olympic surfing team.Inspirational: With captivating photos that bring Gilmore's story to life, young readers will see how she became the first rookie to win the World Title at age 17 and learn about her mentorship of young surfers and environmental activism.Build Reading Skills: This engaging 32-page light biography will help your child improve comprehension and build confidence with guided pre- and post-reading questions, close reading prompts, in-text vocabulary definitions, and a fun review activity.Leveled Books: Part of the Women in Sports series, this lower reading level biography and full-color pictures make the story of this amazing female athlete easily comprehendible for kids as they follow along in this engaging story.Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.

Ein Buchladen zum Verlieben!Die siebzehnjährige Anna erlebt einen katastrophalen Sommer. Als ihre Tante sie einlädt, in ihrer Buchhandlung am Meer auszuhelfen, ergreift Anna deshalb kurzerhand die Chance, ihrem Leben für einige Zeit zu entkommen. Was sie bei ihren Sommerplänen nicht bedacht hat, ist der eigensinnige, aber irritierend gut aussehende Surfer Jacob, der ihr zwar gehörig auf die Nerven geht, zu dem sie sich aber auf unerklärliche Weise hingezogen fühlt.Doch die Buchhandlung steckt in finanziellen Schwierigkeiten, und so bleibt Anna nichts anderes übrig, als mit Jacob zusammenzuarbeiten, um den Lebenstraum ihrer Tante zu retten. Dabei entdeckt sie, dass das wahre Leben möglicherweise viel romantischer sein kann als die Fiktion ...Eine sommerlich-unbeschwerte Slow-Burn-Romance mit WohlfühlgarantieBooklover meets Surferboy in charmantem Kleinstadt-Küsten-SettingPerfekt für Fans von Jenny Han und Lynn Painter und alle hoffnungslosen Romantiker

Sommerzeit ist Badezeit! Wenn die Temperaturen so richtig hochkochen, hilft nur noch ein Sprung ins schöne kühle Wasser! Auch unsere liebsten Entenhausener Donald Duck und Co. bekommen nicht genug von Freibad, See und Meer und machen sich mit Sonnenschirm, Taucherbrille und Handtuch auf zum nächsten Bade-Abenteuer. Egal ob Schwimm-Profi , Seepferdchen-Anwärter oder Bademuffel - mit diesen spritzigen Geschichten ist Sommerfreude vorprogrammiert!

In this thrilling YA memoir, pro surfer Maya Gabeira tells the awe-inspiring true story of her journey from unstoppable teenager to the Guinness World Record–holding legend she is today.<BR><BR>Who am I, beyond the board? Surf legend Maya Gabeira is famous for her nerve. Her surfing journey began at the age of fourteen and reached a high when she set (and later broke) a Guinness World Record for highest wave conquered by any big wave surfer—man or woman—after bouncing back from a near-fatal accident.<BR><BR> Gabeira has been heralded as one of the top surfers of her generation. But who is the ferocious personality beyond the board? What are the stories behind the relationships and challenges that shaped her into the indomitable surfer, women’s rights advocate, and champion for mental health awareness she is today?<BR><BR> For the first time ever, Maya looks back on her formative years: the romances, career highs, vulnerabilities, and setbacks that defined her at an early age.<BR><BR> At seventeen, she left her home in Rio de Janeiro in order to chase waves around the world, toting a single backpack and waiting tables to get by. Maya carved her own path as a teen, defining her own remarkable narrative: that of a vulnerable, passionate, and driven young woman who learned never to flinch—even in the face of death.

With one word, Tess’s world could be completely undone: <BR>Epilepsy.<BR><BR>Tess lives for swimming: the feel of the pool's rough edge on her toes, the snap of cold water on her skin, and the push of her limbs ever forward. In the water, she’s truly alive. <BR><BR>Until tragedy strikes. And Tess is left navigating a summer of doctor visits, missed swim practices, a newly distant best friend, and a job stuck behind a counter—not sitting high in the lifeguard chair like every season before.<BR><BR>Instead, her spot goes to new guy Charlie. Although his messy hair and laid-back demeanor catch Tess’s attention, this isn’t really the time. She’s got to focus on getting back in the pool—and on getting back to herself.<BR><BR>Lyrically and sensitively written, Breathing Underwater is a slice-of-life story with depth, exploring topics like epilepsy, inclusivity in student athletics, changing friendships, and the power of love and community. With warmth and wit, Abbey Lee Nash has crafted a moving portrait of a teen girl’s journey to self-acceptance and life on her own terms.<BR><BR>Named to the YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults List<BR>A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Dieses Buch zeigt die 50 wichtigsten Knoten, die man für Alltag und Outdoor braucht: zum Befestigen, Verbinden, Verknüpfen und Sichern. Von Standardknoten bis Segel-, Camping-, Fischer- und Kletterknoten ist alles vertreten und wird in anschaulichen Illustrationen Schritt für Schritt erklärt. Zudem erfahren Abenteuerlustige, wie man ein Seil aus verschiedenen Materialien selbst herstellt oder z. B. Netze knüpft oder ein Dörrgestell baut.- Die 50 wichtigsten Knoten zum Segeln, Klettern, Angeln, Campen, Outdoor u.v.m.- Für Outdoor-Survival-Fans: wie man ein Seil aus verschiedenen Materialien selbst herstellt oder Netze knüpft- Leicht und verständlich erklärt in Schritt-für-Schritt-IllustrationenAusstattung: Abbildungen in 3c

Wren Sky has been practicing at the Athletic Center for 3 years and plans on joining a swim team, but she doesn't know where. After her coach sees all her hardwork, she tells Wren's parents about Wren joining the Swordfish team. Her parents agreed and Wren joins the team.Will she make new friends? Will she win her first swim meet? Read volume 1 to find out.

"If I keep talking, maybe someday I'll meet someone who's listening."It's the very next spring break after the events that took place at the Yellow County Community College in Yellow County,¿Maryland the semester previous. Spring has sprung! Charlie Heralds confronts his nemesis Jerd McKinley about stealing his screenplay and is met with an interesting proposal: turn the story of he and his friends winning the Tri-County Relay Race into a movie. Jonathan Poole and his wife Chris are having twins and he has to take a job at a local chain restaurant. And Skip Trembles, a skateboarder and podcast fanatic, has a date with Destiny.The production of Charlie's movie brings Hollywood talent to Yellow County and Charlie watches his dream turn into a nightmare. He has to decide what's actually important to him while Jonathan has daddy drama and Skip learns about life, love, and the truth about happy endings and happenstances.Peter L. Harmon's fictional Maryland county is the perfect setting for this third chapter in The Happenstances... saga.

Bill ist der Einzige, der den Untergang der Jacht vor der Küste Marokkos überlebt. Allein in einem kleinen Boot, rettet er Aya, ein Berbermädchen, die in denselben Sturm geraten ist. Viele Wochen treiben die beiden verloren auf dem Meer, der unerbittlichen Sonne ausgeliefert. Nur die Nächte, in denen Aya - wie Scheherazade - Geschichten aus 1001 Nacht erzählt, können ihnen noch Hoffnung geben. Irgendwann stranden sie auf einer kleinen Insel, wo eine ganz andere Gefahr lauert ... Ein gnadenlos spannender Roman, der tief eintaucht in die Schönheit und den Schrecken des Meeres.

Einmalig: Boris Herrmann erstmals ausführlich über seine Teilnahme an der Vendée Globe, den Kampf mit der Natur und das Ringen mit sich selbstBoris Herrmann ist als erster Deutscher bei der Vendée Globe gestartet, der berühmtesten und härtesten Regatta der Welt. Nach einem fantastischen Rennen belegte er mit seiner Yacht Seaexplorer einen kaum erträumten fünften Platz. In diesem Buch schildert er erstmals ausführlich seine Erlebnisse und Emotionen, die Höhen und Tiefen während der 80 Tage allein auf dem Meer. Er erzählt von den schönsten und gefährlichsten Momenten, von den enormen mentalen Herausforderungen. Er beschreibt die Ozeane, die er überquert hat, die meiste Zeit vom Festland weiter entfernt als die Astronauten der ISS. Und er erläutert, warum der Schutz der Meere so wichtig ist. Herrmann, der 2019 mit seiner Rennyacht Greta Thunberg über den Atlantik nach New York brachte, engagiert sich seit Jahren für Klima- und Naturschutz. Ein Buch nicht nur für Segler, sondern ein Buch für alle Menschen, die vom Reichtum der Meere und von Abenteuern auf hoher See träumen.Als Klimaschutzbeitrag finanzieren die Autoren für jedes verkaufte Buch die Pflanzung einer Mangrove im Malizia Mangrove Park auf den Philippinen. Zum aktuellen Stand der Aktion siehe Boris Herrmanns Website www.borisherrmannracing.com und die Website des Malizia Mangrove Park.Ausstattung: mit farbigen Abbildungen

Jan ist ein stinknormaler Typ, der super schwimmt und gut durchs Leben kommt. Doch in seiner neuen Klasse taucht ein altes Problem auf: Er hat Schwierigkeiten mit dem Lesen. Flo wohnt im Haus nebenan, kleidet sich wie ein Hippie und hat Hühner. Ereignisse und Begegnungen, die sie bewegen, hält sie in Infografiken fest. Auch Jan kommt darin vor. Doch bis die beiden gute Freunde werden, muss Jan in der Schule die Sache mit dem Lesen verraten, den fiesen Linus von Flo weghalten und ganz nebenbei: schwimmen, denn sein Trainer hält ihn für ein Riesentalent.

After an injury forces Ria off the diving team, an unexpected friendship with Cotton, a guy on the autism spectrum, helps her come to terms with the abusive relationship she’s been in with her former coach.Ria Williams was an elite diver on track for the Olympics. As someone who struggled in school, largely due to her ADHD, diving was the one place Ria could shine.But while her parents were focused on the trophies, no one noticed how Coach Benny’s strict rules and punishments controlled every aspect of Ria’s life. The harder he was on her, the sharper her focus. The bigger the bruise, the better the dive.Until a freak accident at a meet changes everything. Just like that, Ria is handed back her life, free of Benny. To fill her now empty and aimless days, Ria rekindles a friendship with Cotton, a guy she used to know back in elementary school. With Cotton, she’s able to open up about what Benny would do to her, and through Cotton’s eyes, Ria is able to see it for what it was: abuse.Then Benny returns, offering Ria a second chance with a life-changing diving opportunity. But it’s not hers alone—Benny’s coaching comes with it. The thought of being back under his control seems impossible to bear, but so does walking away. How do you separate the impossible from possible when the one thing you love is so tangled up in the thing you fear most?- Neurodivergent Characters: Ria’s ADHD makes diving the one place she can shine. Cotton is on the autism spectrum, and it’s through his eyes that she begins to see the truth.- A Toxic Coach: Coach Benny’s control was total—the bigger the bruise, the better the dive. Now he’s back, offering Ria everything she’s ever wanted at a price she might not be able to pay.- Healing From Trauma: A poignant novel about recognizing abuse that was disguised as discipline and finding the strength to reclaim your life from the person who controlled it.- Athlete Mental Health: An unflinching look at the dark side of elite sports, where the pressure to win can hide a toxic reality and walking away feels as impossible as staying.

This is the hardcover Anniversary XL High Dive Edition of the first book in The Happenstances... series! This edition comes with a BONUS short story set in The Happenstances... universe.Set the summer before last around a series of happenstances at a community swim and racquet club in Yellow County, The Happenstances at the Yellow County Community Swim and Racquet Club the Summer Before Last is a bittersweet, nostalgic, but comic novella about a team of misfits, including a loser who secretly lives in the guard house of the club, a struggling artist with webbed toes, a timid teen with a concave chest, and the beautiful heiress of the Comfort Inn fortune. They have to win the impending Tri-County Relay Race and save the club from being run by a management company that only cares about money. The management company hires an opposing relay team of ringers including a girl with a prosthetic dorsal fin and a man named Carmichael Schmelps who looks suspiciously like a certain Olympic gold medalist.

Three friends discover, surfing just got serious Book three in the Bikini Collective series sees the girls preparing for another action-packed surfing adventure, but one of them is burdened with secrets. With all of her scholarship funds exhausted, Carolyn has no choice: she’ll have to drop off the World Junior Tour. Just as all seems lost, the Bikini Collective – along with a mysterious donor – save the day. Next stop: Brazil! The lush South American tropics are dreamy; playful waves, everyday fiestas and beautiful, smooth-talking Brazilians. But can Carolyn find what it means to truly be happy? Just like a calm ocean with a deceiving undercurrent, things aren’t always what they seem.

Before the voyage of Captain Cook, an armed merchant ship of the Dutch East India Company disappears off the east coast of Australia. An unofficial voyage never recorded in the history books, the Dutch sea captain is desperate to send a message home that may be the last hope for Erik, a boy living in Australia 250 years later. Erik is drawn to the sea, yet lives with his family in the Australian outback. His crippled father hates the sea. So what explains the diving suit Erik discovers in the attic, and the artifacts hidden inside, that match the heirloom his sister Stephanie wears? With a chance move to the coast they learn of their parents' deception. Their father's murky past leads them into the shipwreck smugglers' lair that has baffled authorities. Unable to tell friend from foe; beguiled by illusion and confronted by betrayal, kidnapping and murder, 13 year old Erik and Stephanie fall deeper into a seething labyrinth of no return above and below the waterline. How can they solve the series of riddles and puzzles confronting them? Will they unlock the clues painted into a Vincent van Gogh masterpiece? What chance have they against a heartless killer, the leader of the smugglers, and the temptations of a clever conjurer with shifting identities - a maestro of the counterfeit?

Ruby has woken up from an accident that claims the life of her family, not remembering who she is and loses the ability to speak. With nowhere to go, her doctor takes her into his care.Even though she doesn't remember anything, there is something about the doctor's son, Tyler. She swears she has seen him before but she begins to fall for him. There is just one problem: he is already dating someone and Ruby knows she doesn't have a chance with him, but Tyler might just be the key to remembering everything about herself, as well as the sound of music.