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2) Jabari jumps
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Jabari is definitely ready to jump off the diving board. He's finished his swimming lessons and passed his swim test, and he's a great jumper, so he's not scared at all. "Looks easy," says Jabari, watching the other kids take their turns. But when his dad squeezes his hand, Jabari squeezes back. He needs to figure out what kind of special jump to do anyway, and he should probably do some stretches before climbing up onto the diving board. In a sweetly...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Here is the story of Ben Franklin's first invention, his journey through the scientific method, and the surprising successes that result when you're willing to make mistakes.
Every inventor has to start somewhere, and one of the greatest innovators in our history was no exception. Ben Franklin developed his first invention while doing what he loved best: swimming! Barb Rosenstock's rhythmic, whimsical style is the perfect complement...
Every inventor has to start somewhere, and one of the greatest innovators in our history was no exception. Ben Franklin developed his first invention while doing what he loved best: swimming! Barb Rosenstock's rhythmic, whimsical style is the perfect complement...
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Looking forward to swimming lessons before finding out that she will have to put her face underwater, a little girl tells her doll, Bitty Baby, a story about a brave little duckling who teaches his brothers and sisters that practice makes perfect.
5) Breathless
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
At boarding school, Katie tries to focus on swimming and becoming popular instead of the painful memories of her institutionalized schizophrenic older brother.
Author
Series
Stink volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Stink has been in the Polliwog swim class for what seems like frog-ever, and still can't bear to put his face in the water. Then, one day, Stink has a close encounter with a freaky mutant frog. All of a sudden, his froggy senses are tingling!
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Otto is a young otter who can do many things well, but swimming is not one of them until his older sister tells him to start small and, little by little, he is able to reach his goal, adding swimming to his "I can do" list.
10) Keep up, duck!
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
This exuberant read-aloud stars a very clever duckling named Puck who, falling farther and farther behind Mama Duck and his siblings as they swim to the lily pond, comes up with a sneaky solution to get ahead.
13) Under the sea
Author
Publisher
HarperFestival
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In order to cool down, Harold draws a swimming hole.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
June 2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
On the first day of vacation thirteen-year-old Davey Tsering wakes up early, slips out of his family's hotel room without telling anyone, and heads for the beach and a swim in the warm Floridian waters--and a fateful meeting with a shark.
16) The cowboy
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Anna pretends to teach her toy dog, Toto, to swim, he is carried too far out by a big wave but a boy in a cowboy hat comes to the rescue.
18) Forget you
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books/MTV Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After her parents separate, seventeen-year-old Zoey has a car accident she cannot remember and starts asking her high school swim team friends what happened on that night at the beach on the Florida panhandle.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
While spending the summer in the Hamptons, sixteen-year-old Mia is disappointed that her cousin Corinne has grown so distant, but when she meets the irresistible and adventurous boy next door, everything changes for the better.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, when Queen Victoria is unable to go swimming without her subjects glimpsing her in a swimming suit, her husband, Prince Albert, comes up with an innovative solution so his wife can indulge in the healthy exercise.
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