Lucy Tries Short Track


Book Description

In this picture book and follow-up to Lucy Tries Luge, Lucy and her friends lace up their skates and try short track speed skating.




Lucy Tries Luge


Book Description

Lucy has a new luge sled, but she isn’t sure about this unique sliding sport. You have to lie on your back and steer with your legs? The luge track’s twists and turns look pretty scary too. But with her parents’ support and a bit of courage, Lucy jumps on her sled for a speedy adventure! Lucy Tries Luge is the first book in the Lucy Tries Sports series, which aims to promote physical literacy and encourage young readers to get involved in sports. Research shows that developing fundamental movement and sports skills at a young age benefits kids for their entire lives, promoting an active and healthy lifestyle. Lisa Bowes developed her stories around the HIGH FIVE principles of healthy child development needed for quality programs, including the support of a caring adult, the opportunity to participate, to play, to make friends and to master skills.




Lucy Tries Short Track


Book Description

After trying the sliding sport of luge, Lucy is back for another speedy adventure! This time, Lucy laces up her skates and tries short track speed skating. It’s not as easy as it looks. When you skate really fast around tight turns, you just might crash! But with her friends at her side, Lucy skims across the ice in a thrilling race to the finish. Lucy Tries Short Track is the second book in the Lucy Tries Sports series, designed to encourage children to get active and participate in sports.




Lucy Tries Short Track Read-Along


Book Description

After trying the sliding sport of luge, Lucy is back for another speedy adventure—this time, she laces up her skates and tries short track speed skating. It’s not as easy as it looks. When you skate really fast around tight turns, you just might crash! But with her friends at her side, Lucy skims across the ice in a thrilling race to the finish. Lucy Tries Short Track is the second book in the Lucy Tries Sports series, designed to encourage children to get active and participate in sports. For more information or to find out what Lucy will try next, visit www.lucytriessports.com. Also available in French.




Lucy Tries Soccer


Book Description

Eager to try a summer sport, Lucy and her friends meet at the soccer field for their first game of three-on-three! Thanks to Coach Nick, Lucy and the rest of Team Blue learn a few basic skills as they prepare to face Team Red.The Lucy Tries Sports series is designed to encourage children to get active and participate in sports and recreation. In Lucy Tries Soccer, Lucy discovers how much fun it is to play on a team and learns why soccer is the world’s most popular game.




Lucy Tries Soccer Read-Along


Book Description

Eager to try a summer sport, Lucy and her friends meet at the soccer field for their first game of three-on-three! Thanks to Coach Nick, Lucy and the rest of Team Blue learn a few basic skills as they prepare to face Team Red.The Lucy Tries Sports series is designed to encourage children to get active and participate in sports and recreation. In Lucy Tries Soccer, Lucy discovers how much fun it is to play on a team and learns why soccer is the world’s most popular game.




Speed Skating


Book Description

Using the new C3 Framework for Social Studies Standards, Skating in the Global Citizens: Olympic Sports series explores the sport through the lenses of History, Geography, Civics, and Economics. Text and photos look at the history, basic philosophies, and geography of speed skating. Content includes information on multiple Olympic events in the category. As they read, students will develop questions about the text, and use evidence from a variety of sources in order to form conclusions. Data-focused backmatter is included, as well as a bibliography, glossary, and index.




Short Stories and Anecdotes


Book Description

These biographical stories involve bouts with nature, the big depression, human foibles here and abroad, and awakening of the spirit within us all.




Super Minds Level 4 Teacher's Book


Book Description

Super Minds is a seven-level course for young learners, designed to improve students' memory along with their language skills. The Student's Book includes activities to develop language creatively, cross-curriculum thinking with fascinating 'English for school' sections and lively stories that explore social values. CEF: A1.




The Face in the Shadows


Book Description

Lucy and Ben Reid and their children Jake and Emily are about to change their whole lives and move away from their family home at Primrose Hill. After Ben's Great Aunt Maud dies and his parents mysteriously disappear without a trace, they decide to move away to continue running Maud's shop, Bartons, in Frank and Janet Reid's absence. Follow their journey and see how they navigate their new lilfe living at Hilltop Manor. You will meet the staff who reside there with them, lots of new friends, and maybe some people who are not so nice along the way. Be prepared to face plenty of dramatic twists and turns throughout and, when Lucy is alone in the study (or so she thinks), near the big bookcases and filing cabinets in the darkest corner of the room, someone else joins her, but there is one big question... who is the face in the shadows?