DK Readers: Let's Play Tennis

DK Readers: Let's Play Tennis
Author: Kate Simkins
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2006-05-29
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0756639662

DK Readers help beginning readers to progress from easy-to-follow stories with simple sentences and word repetition to more sophisticated storylines, sentence structure, and new vocabulary.

Muhammad Ali Visual Encyclopedia

Muhammad Ali Visual Encyclopedia
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2018-05-29
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1465479694

A comprehensive look at the life of one the greatest sports superstars of the 20th Century, Muhammad Ali--boxer, anti-Vietnam War activist, civil rights campaigner, advocate for Parkinson's sufferers, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. From a humble upbringing in segregated Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. went on to become Muhammad Ali, Olympic gold medalist, three-time heavyweight boxing champion of the world, and in his own words "the greatest." More than 150 iconic photographs chart Ali's life and rise to boxing stardom and showcase 60 key bouts that made his name, including the "Fight of the Century" against Joe Frazier, the "Rumble in the Jungle" with George Foreman, and the "Thrilla in Manila," his third and final match against Frazier. Data panels throughout give key facts at a glance, while quote boxes highlight Ali's well-known phrases, such as "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." Key influencers in his career, including Don King and Howard Cosell, are featured. The book also shines a light on Ali's continuing impact after his death in 2016, and how his message of hard work and perseverance continues to inspire people around the world.

Let's Play Tennis

Let's Play Tennis
Author: DK
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2006-06-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1405333855

Join Meg for her first tennis lesson, from learning to serve to smashing an ace. Packed with full-colour photographs, lively illustrations and engaging, age-appropriate stories to encourage children to develop reading skills. A multi-level reading programme guaranteed to capture children's interest. Serve up some reading fun!

How to Play Tennis

How to Play Tennis
Author: Venus Williams
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2005
Genre: Tennis
ISBN: 9781405306737

Tennis instruction and brief history of the game from two of the best-known pros. Provides special attention inclusiviness of the modern game.

Sophie's World

Sophie's World
Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 599
Release: 2007-03-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466804270

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.