Extreme Sports category: 121 books

Best friends Rex and Cruze have one shot at winning the biggest race of their lives. Schools out for the summer, and they have just weeks to prepare and raise the money. The pressure is on; against all odds, will they make it in time and not be persuaded by fast-talking, sketchy influences in their...

YOU are an experienced mountain climber. Your goal is to reach the top of the world's highest and most dangerous mountains. Will you attempt to: Scale Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro? or Climb the Matterhorn in Europe? or Reach the top of the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest? Experience the life-or-death...

A meteorite is hurtling toward the Black Hills of South Dakota. . . . Brady Steele's love for all things extreme is given a boost when a fireball crashes through the roof of his house. It turns out that Brady's space rock is one of the rarest meteorites ever found. In fact, a professor from...

Find out about the life of rock climbers in this cool new Chapter book, part of an Extreme Adventure strand featuring high-adrenaline stories about real explorers. With gripping--and TRUE--stories of incredible adventures, Rock Stars! takes readers on three amazing journeys of ultimate survival....

Download is a series of books for older pupils with a low reading ability. This series of readers uses extreme sports, fast cars and popular culture as a theme to turn reluctant and less able teenagers back to reading. You're hanging on by your fingertips. It's a long way up. It's a long way down. Fight you fear and read on!

Readers may never expect that they might free fall to Earth, but if they have ever dived into a pool, that's exactly what they've done. This book shows readers how Newton's three laws of motion affect divers, skydivers, and mountain climbers' movements. Readers discover who uses gravity, who works...

Download is a series of books for older pupils with a low reading ability. This series of readers uses extreme sports, fast cars and popular culture as a theme to turn reluctant and less able teenagers back to reading. You're free falling from a plane. There's no way back. This is skydiving!

Montana-born Rex loves nothing more than to take his kayak out on a river, the faster and more powerful the better. When he gets the opportunity to tackle the well-named El Furioso in southwest Colombia, he is thrilled. He anticipates the river’s challenges, but finds himself in a situation where...

Marcus has it all: charm, good looks, successful parents, endless opportunities and anything money can buy. Along with his best friend, Tom, and Tom's crush, Yasmin, he escapes to his parents' resort condo during a school trip to Whistler, B.C. And he can't refuse when drinking makes Yasmin determined...

Welcome to the Happytown Theme Park! Noob has always wanted to design and build rides that would thrill and terrify his patrons. But making barely enough robux to survive while working a dead-end job at the theme park, it becomes a highly stressful challenge. Who knows what will tomorrow...

Scholastic's annual Year in Sports returns with brand-new, exciting coverage of the past year's sporting events. This 2020 edition features colorful photographs from right in the action, completely updated facts and stats, plus special features on the X Games and other major sports events. Read...

Większość z nas: narciarzy- i snowboardzistów-amatorów ma podobną refleksję w czasie wymarzonego wyjazdu w góry: "dlaczego nie przygotowałem/przygotowałam się do wyjazdu". Brak dobrego przygotowania do sezonu to obolałe nogi, gorsza technika, mniejsza przyjemność z jazdy i...

What does it take to be an athlete, and how do athletes choose their sport? Some athletes compete because they like to win, and some play sports because they like to work with others on a team. Whether you're competing on a team or alone, there is a sport for everyone! Featuring TIME For Kids content,...

Książka pt. „W ścianach Dżangała” to sprawozdanie z niebezpiecznej wyprawy na masyw Dżangała widziane oczami jednego z jej uczestników – Jacka. Organizacja całej wyprawy miała nastąpić na początku lipca 1974 roku. Autor nie ukrywa, że zorganizowanie wyjazdu, wbrew pozorom, nie...