Showing results for "Children of Time" in Sports Fiction

From the first plié to the final curtain call, Goodnight Dance follows a young girl as she says goodnight to her favorite pastime. Author Christianne Jones captures the excitement of the theater and the beauty of the ballerinas onstage.

From gliding downhill to big-air tricks on the half-pipe, Goodnight Snowboard follows a young boy as he hits the slopes until he says goodnight to the popular extreme sport.

Eso es exactamente lo que le sucede a Rulas, uno de los mejores youtubers de fútbol. Junto a su ingeniosa amiga Cubi y su travieso e inseparable conejillo de Indias, Gominolo, se embarcan en una misión increíble para salvar el fútbol y devolver sus recuerdos al mundo. Con la ayuda de una asombrosa máquina del tiempo, Rulas viajará a los partidos más importantes de la historia para intentar recuperar todos esos grandes momentos.

Grandfather is taking the Aldens on a camping trip. The children enjoy the camp-out—setting up the tent, hiking in the woods, and especially making delicious food over the campfire. But some strange things begin to happen. Loud music plays in the middle of the night. Their lantern disappears. And then they receive a frightening note. It looks like the Boxcar Children have another mystery to solve!

Tidsrejser, gaming og gåder forenes endnu en gang i hæsblæsende fortsættelse til gamer-eventyret "Wonderscape". De tre børn, Arthur, Ren og Cecily, bliver igen hvirvlet flere hundrede år ud i fremtiden, hvor et nyt eventyrspil venter dem. Et spil fuld af historiens største legender er det helt store hit i år 2493, men vennerne opdager hurtigt, at den mystiske Deadlock forsøger at genskabe en farlig tidsrejseteknologi. Med universets skæbne i deres hænder må børnene deltage i et spil, som bringer dem både til den tabte by Atlantis, vikingeslagmarker og underjordiske inka-tunneller.

It's always been just Ryder and his mom. But on the way home from Ryder's baseball practice, everything comes to a halt. An accident sends his mom to the hospital, and now she is fighting for her life. So Ryder goes on a search to find his father, determined to help pay for the expensive operation to save his mother's life. But with only a signed baseball and a letter as his clues, and the help of his next-door neighbor and a New York City firefighter, will everything fall into place in time, or will Ryder become a lost boy forever?

Stosh thought he was finished traveling back in time. But then Ralph Branca shows up in his room one night, begging for Stosh's help. In 1951, Branca pitched a ball to Bobby Thomson that would become the "Shot Heard Round the World", a home run that won the National League pennant for the New York Giants and changed the lives of Branca and Thomson forever. Branca says the Giants were cheating, and he needs Stosh to use his power with baseball cards to go back in time and set things right.

Dan Gutman has won a wide and growing audience among young readers, who have eagerly devoured all the books in the sports-loving author’s Baseball Card Adventure series. In Ted & Me, time-traveling Stosh has finally been found out by the FBI. Tasked with using his Ted Williams card to go back to 1941 to prevent the attack on Pearl Harbor, Stosh also seizes on the chance to help the Splendid Splinter add even more home runs to his already legendary tally.

Bed time stories for children.

Two heavy-hitters in children's literature deliver a critically acclaimed, bestselling biographical novel of cultural icon Muhammad Ali. "This utterly delightful story about Ali's childhood is a smash hit."—School Library Journal (starred review) Before he was a household name, Cassius Clay...

How many 14-year-old boys would turn down an offer of time travel to any baseball game in history? Certainly not die-hard New York Yankees fan Matt Collier. Accompanied by the Time Keeper, guardian of Time throughout the universe, Matt becomes the batboy for his beloved team and tries to change the outcome of the 1960 World Series, the first ever to end with a home run.

WARNING: DO NOT BELIEVE THE STORY YOU'RE ABOUT TO HEAR. Well, you can believe some of it. There is some real history. But also hijinks. Time travel. And famous figures setting off on adventures that definitely never happened--till now. Time is getting twisted, and it's up to two kids to...

Katie Flanagan, Lucy Andia, Isabella Clemente, Keith Evans, Artie Lieberman, and Tony Andia are best friends at Peabody Middle School. Join them as they learn about life and themselves through playing the sports they love!

Tim är en helt vanlig kille. Han gillar sport, kanske framför allt fotboll. Men han är inte bra på det. Om han ska vara ärlig så kan han inte ens spela. En dag frågar Kalle honom om han kan vara med och spela i en tävling. Man kan vinna en fin pokal. Tim tackar ja men ångrar sig nästan direkt. Hur ska han hinna lära sig spela fotboll på bara några dagar ...? Anna Johansson är en svensk författare. Hon skriver framför allt böcker till barn och ungdomar.

Clayton Hollow does the best snowboarding tricks! But someone's playing a trick on him by stealing his snowboard. Can the Aldens help him?

The Aldens have joined a bicycle race! Three days of riding and camping should be fun for everyone. Even Grandfather has joined the race. But right from the word “Go!” things go wrong: misleading road signs by day and collapsing tents by night. Henry’s first flat tire could be bad luck, but three flat tires point to foul play. But who is playing foul - and why? The Boxcar Children are determined to solve the mystery before they cross the finish line.

The lodge is having its annual winter carnival, and the Boxcar Children sign up to compete in events like skiing, skating, sledding, and building snow and ice sculptures. But no sooner has the competition begun than the children have a mystery to solve!

The Aldens are all on the same soccer team, and know that winning isn't as important as having fun. But is someone trying to ruin the soccer league? Practice balls get deflated, a goalie's gloves are ruined, and a player is locked in the locker room during an important game. What's going on?

It’s a big week at Cogwheel Stadium—the Clayton Cogs are playing for the pennant! But the other team’s batters seem to know the pitches too well, and it’s clear someone in the stadium is stealing the Cogs pitcher’s signals. Now the Boxcar Children must find out who is spying for the other team!

Listen and relive the exciting tales from Highlights, now on audio! Learn how Bryan tests the waters in his first triathlon and about how Tara throws a wild game-winning pitch at the end of a tense game, along with other stories about sports and games.