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Gymnastics

Great Moments, Records, and Facts: Great Moments, Records, and Facts

by Teddy Borth
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Artistic gymnastics is a demonstration on strength, athletics, and grace. Gymnastics has athletes and moments that leave the world in awe. Nadia Comaneci was 14 years old when she was the first person to get a perfect score at the Olympics. Kohei Uchimura showed why he's the best in the world when he won the all-around title five years in a row. Gabby Douglas crushed her competition to become the first black gymnast to claim gold in the all-around event. Gymnastics: Great Moments, Records, and Facts show the people and events that make the sport great! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Great Sports

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    January 1, 2015

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781629708508

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 2.3
    • Lexile® Measure: 470
    • Interest Level: K-3(LG)
    • Text Difficulty: 0-2

  • Reviews

    • The Horn Book

      July 1, 2015
      Each book contains a brief, overly generalized text that introduces readers to a random selection of vague facts (e.g., in Football: "The largest stadiums in the United States are for college teams"). The clean book design and large color photographs are attractive, but readers looking for an interesting, coherent collection of "great moments, records, and facts" will need to look elsewhere. There are three other spring 2015 books in this series. Glos., ind.

      (Copyright 2015 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

    • School Library Journal

      April 1, 2015

      K-Gr 2-These short books offer lively images of sports action and readable factoids aimed at beginning readers. Each one presents an overview of the sport through 20 pages of simplified text. The facts are noteworthy, if overly simplified ("A gym teacher came up with basketball in 1891. It was raining. He wanted to keep his students busy."). Baseball's history is likewise summed up in three sentences, though the book goes on to mention great players, including Joe DiMaggio and Cal Ripken Jr. Both current and former players earn mentions: Gabby Douglas in gymnastics and soccer's Lionel Messi. Despite the enduring topics, these books fail to distinguish themselves and will likely be dated in just a few years. VERDICT Marginal choices for novice readers.

      Copyright 2015 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

Formats

  • OverDrive Read

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:2.3
  • Lexile® Measure:470
  • Interest Level:K-3(LG)
  • Text Difficulty:0-2

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