Part of the award-winning Our Stories series, this is a fascinating history of James Cook, his humble beginnings and visionary spirit which changed the course of history.
Cassie's Uncle Bill takes her flying to a Pacific island, but the small plane's engines fail over the ocean, and they have to land on the water. After putting on their life jackets and ditching the plane, Cassie and Uncle Bill wait in the water for hours until they are rescued. While they are waiting, they have a close and fascinating encounter with a whale.
This is a true story of a shipwreck and treasure lost at sea. When a mystery wreck is discovered at Madmans Corner, a remote area of Australia's vast coast, maritime archaeologist set to work to unlock its secret. Their patient detective work uncovers the surprising story of the ship and its captain, and of a desperate episode in Australian history. Shipwreck at Madmans Corner is both an exciting mystery and adventure story, but also provides accurate and fascinating detail on the work and processes involved with maritime archaeological and historical research.
On 19 November 1941 the HMAS SYDNEY II sank. On board were 645 Australian sailors. None survived. The location of the wreck was a mystery. This is the story of the battle that sank the Sydney, of World War II, and of wartime tricks. It is the story of the clues that were pieced together to lead to the discovery of the watery grave of the young Australians.
In Fremantle Prison they are alone, half a world away from home. But their powerful friends in America have not forgotten them. Danger, excitement and daring - this is an extraordinary true story.
Izzy Newton has a problem with her goal shooting in basketball. While recovering from a broken leg, she learns of her namesake, Isaac Newton, and his work on the law of gravity. While searching for information on Isaac Newton on a computer in the library, Izzy finds herself communicating directly with the man himself, across 300 years and through some form of Internet time warp.
A simple text exploring the idea that what goes up must come down. Set in a toy store, the story cleverly moves from one toy to another in a chain reaction.
Story for primary school children. A London Plane tree in your garden is good for climbing, but what do you do if your next door neighbour doesn't like its messy leaves'.
When he had just embarked on his international cricket journey, Justin Langer sought advice from the great Sir Donald Bradman. This helped set him on the pathway to a wonderful Test career. Now, just as he did for the Australian men's team, Justin has stepped in to help a struggling new kids' team -- the Kangaroos. JL takes the team through much more than skills training, as he honours the same spirit of Aussie cricket that he instilled into the national men's side. He shares with them the importance of mateship, pride in effort, fair play, honesty, integrity, patience, courage and modesty. JL encourages the eleven aspiring cricketers to embrace these ideals as they strive to become Team Kangaroo.
Whack! There's a sound in the blue summer sky. The sun's coming out, as the ball soars high. Kids all over the world play cricket. Follow their game all around the globe.
A distinctive and incomparable collection from "Mighty" Mike McGee, the class clown of spoken word and poetry slam's geek champion. This debut includes his most notable performance poems, stories, humorous anecdotes and how-to's. This handbook moves between serious love tomes, like "Open Letter to Neil Armstrong" and "Every Day," to his most irreverent and requested works, like "Puddin'" and "Like." A true road-dog, McGee travels with words and camera, many results of which are captured in this collection. The humor contained in these pages are a campfire on a lonely winter night, the poetry – a reason to shout about love.
Sharing great stories from childhood and school experiences, community and church activities, athletic success, and twenty years of professional achievements and failures, Richard addresses challenges that demands proven leadership skills. Understanding the impact, Richard has created what he calls a GPS guide for building successful teams. Richard introduces leadership soft skills to enable coaches, pastors, teachers, entrepreneurs, youth leaders, and managers to develop collective success. With so many distractions around us, FRUSTRATION can easily consume us, thereby, distracting from the objective of leading winning teams. The Mike Method (TMM) translates the FRUSTRATION into actionable solutions. By introducing common "F" words; to include Foundation, Focus, Fundamentals, and Follow Through. The list goes on where the reader can explore these powerful attributes of leadership when faced with a wall of frustration. Richard's writing is authentic. His methodology is based on personal experiences and people survey sampling. To those readers that have a desire to derive improved effectiveness as a leader, this is a must-read GPS guide. The Mike Method simplifies the thinking that grows winning teams!
Who is Mike Hill? For 49 years, he attempted to answer the question, to no avail. Hill was known to the world as the polished, versatile talent with multi-decade broadcast experience. After joining ESPN in 2004, Hill made a name for himself at the network, beginning at the highlight desk for ESPN News and later transitioning to some of the carrier's highest-priority programming, appearing as a host on SportsCenter, NFL Live, Baseball Tonight and NBA Tonight among others. In August of 2013, Hill joined FOX Sports. The embodiment of professionalism, Hill appeared to be living the American Dream; however, his private, internal struggles were taking a toll on his ability to live and to love.Eventually, the mounting trauma resulting from childhood memories of witnessing his mother victimized by domestic violence, a lack of proper male tutelage, discovering that his stepfather was a murder for hire, and the demise of two marriages, forced Hill to his breaking point. Amidst a silent cry for help and a quest to heal from within, forced him to pick up his pen to chronicle the most prolific moments of his life.
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