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The Football Bucket List
The Football Bucket List
Keep track of game stats, winning plays, final scores, snacks, mascots, and other highlights from your trip in this handsomely finished flexi-bound journal. The Football Bucket List, bound in vegan leather and featuring a heat-stamped cover design and football-like stitching around the edges, is filled with prompts to plan the perfect football stadium bucket list. Knocking off each item effectively, discover unique arena features, record your game experiences, and keep precious memories safe in a journal dedicated to all things football. The journal divides the guide into quarters like a football game, so you will find everything in football history, including: First Quarter: Best of the Best Lists Second Quarter: The NFL Third Quarter: College Football Fourth Quarter: The Other Leagues: High School, Arena Football, and the Canadian Football League Overtime: featuring iconic football locations and the best in pop culture and entertainment, to keep you busy in the offseason Prompts and space in each section to note important stats or facts you learn and jot down any other fun memories from your trip Share the journal with friends and family or keep it as a special memento for yourself. Record your thoughts and feelings that could otherwise be forgotten in The Football Bucket List.
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Science Biographies
Science Biographies
Each book in this series traces the life of a famous scientist or inventor, from childhood and education through their sources of inspiration and challenges faced, early successes, and his discoveries or inventions. A timeline at the end of each book summarizes key milestones and achievements of each scientist.
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Who Was Winston Churchill?
Who Was Winston Churchill?
Born into aristocracy, Churchill cut his teeth as a young army officer in British India, the Sudan, and the Second Boer War. He rose in the ranks to First Lord of the Admiralty and was a staunch opponent of the encroaching German Nazis. Churchill served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Churchill was also a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British Prime Minister to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.
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Who Was Frank Lloyd Wright?
Who Was Frank Lloyd Wright?
Born in Wisconsin in 1867, Frank Lloyd Wright became obsessed with a set of building blocks his mother had given to him on his ninth birthday. He grew up to become the father of organic architecture and the greatest American architect of all time, having designed more than 1,100 buildings during his lifetime. These included private homes – such as the stunning Fallingwater, churches, temples, a hotel, and the world-famous Guggenheim Museum in New York City. When asked how he could create so many designs, he answered, “I can’t get them out fast enough.” Frank Lloyd Wright was a man ahead of his time who could barely keep up with his own ideas!
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Strength
Strength
Why is strength important? How can you stay healthy? What are some fun, simple exercises we can all do to stay fit? Answer these questions and more with this simple and engaging text in the Exercise! series. Levelled text and vivid images help teach readers about important health concepts, while step-by-step directions help readers practise exercises on their own.
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Weather Watch
Weather Watch
"Weather affects us every day. How do we know what the weather will be like where we live? How can we prepare for it? Find out the science behind weather observation and prediction"--
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Gross Sports!
Gross Sports!
Sweat, spit, toe jam, blood, and other yucky stuff is a big part of sports, but this is the first book to give kids a gooey-eyed view of the topic. Who is the sweatiest NBA player? What NFL player is the best passer-of gas? Who cleans all those dirty socks? And why does a spitball work? Including stories from all the major sports and even some tips on yucky stuff kids can make for their own teams, Gross Sports is sure to be a crowd-pleaser with boys who love getting dirty almost as much as they love playing sports.
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Mysteries of Black Holes and Dark Matter
Mysteries of Black Holes and Dark Matter
What is a black hole? What is dark matter and what is it made of? How do scientists discover black holes and dark matter if they can't be seen? What do scientists know about these mysterious parts of the universe and what do they still hope to find out? Budding astronomers will learn the answers to these questions and more!
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Heroic Jobs
Discover the stories, people, and equipment behind the world s most dramatic rescues and police raids. Stunning photographs capture the drama and excitement of the rescue missions, while concluding chapters look at the essential skills required by the rescuers, how readers can pursue a career in the emergency services, and what they should do in the event of a real-life emergency."
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Who Was Princess Diana?
Who Was Princess Diana?
Learn how Lady Diana Spencer became the People's Princess as she takes her place in the ranks of the Who Was? series.
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