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Wonder Women of Sports by S. A. Kramer illustrated by Jim Campbell This book goes into he lives of four famous women athletes including Amy Van Dyke, Gail Devers, Dominique Moceanu, And Rebecca Lobo. First is Olympic swimmer Amy Van Dyke and her life long struggle with asthma. As a child she had trouble breathing after very limited exercise and doctors told her that swimming could help with her asthma. She began to swim but could only complete about half of a race before having to stop and catch her breath. High school was rough for amy as she faced criticism for being six feet tall and coughing all the time due to her asthma, teammates would try to get her to quit by spitting at her an throwing he clothes in the pool. But Amy was stubborn and fought her way all the way to the 1990 junior nationals. She barely missed the 1992 olympic team and became depressed and even quit swimming for a few months. She fought back and trained harder than ever and received a bronze medal in the 1994 w...

Spiders by Nic Bishop is a scholastic reader in which won the Robert F. Sibert Honor. The book is filled with close up detailed images of spiders in their natural habitat that are freaky but certainly amazing. The book teaches the reader about not only the different types of spiders but the different characteristics they have in common or are unique by. Each page has a different fact and characteristic on it to be discussed and is displayed with a different species of spider on each page. Did you know there are more than 38,000 types of spiders? By the end of the book, the reader is exposed to more than twenty different spiders and made knowledgeable of more than twenty five facts about spiders. With almost all non fiction selections, this book can be used for children to do research papers and projects on. The quality of the images are stunning as they trap in the characteristic discussed while showing the true beauty (scariness) of the spider species. The book goes over the different...

What Is A Cat? by Bobbie Kalman, illustrated by Barbara Bedell, Tammy Everts, Margaret Reiach, and Bonna Rouse. This engaging book delivers readers with knowledge about the different types of cats, the behaviors of cats, lifestyles of both domestic indwelled cats, as well as introduce cats that are in danger of extinction. The photographs and illustrations give this book a very engaging feeling, the reader becomes encapsulated within the book and wants to keep turning the pages. The book starts off by teaching about mamma;s, breeds, domestic cats, and what pitmans to be warm blooded. The book then sails into big cats where it teaches how big cats stalk and hunt their prey with extravagant photographs of wild cheetahs, leopards, and lions hunting their prey while comparing and contrasting their methods and techniques.next up are the small cats which include the clouded leopard and the Temminck's cat. Although these cats look like small versions of their bigger relatives, they are d...

Jackie Robinson by JACK O'Connor illustrated by Jim Butcher This book goes into detail about the first african american major league baseball player. The reader is brought into a time where blacks and whites were separated even in sports and introduced to a hero Jackie Robinson who served as an officer in world war 2. Jackie Robinson became the first african american player in the major leagues on April 15, 1947. He is faced with hardships including racial torment by fans, coaches, and even some of his teammates. His resilience is needed if there are to be future players of african american race to play baseball in the major leagues. At first he was pushed to the breaking point, other players intentionally would try and hurt him to show that he was weak, but Jackie prevailed and hit almost .300 for the season and hit the most home runs on the team. Soon, other teams begin to sign negro players and this is the beginning of a new era in baseball. In fact, 14 years after jackie robin...

Fish Faces by Norbert Wu This book is a nonfiction book meant for young children. The book includes real pictures taken by the author marine biologist Norbert Wu. The book uses repetition for emphasis and different sounds of language to help influence the readers interest in the book. This nonfiction book offers students the opportunity to be introduced to different species and patterns in the ocean. The book also offer more information about each fish species in the back of the book. This book can be used in a kindergarten to third grade  classroom specifically in science class in order to make students aware of some of the camouflage patterns in the ocean. This can also be used to make students aware of the different ecosystems of the world.