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1) Why we swim
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Bonnie Tsui looks at our love affair with the water, from evolution to mythology, from survival and well-being, from community swim clubs to competitive races, and she goes around the world to explore its significance in many cultures"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"A day at the community pool is full of unwater magic--dunking and diving with friends; somersaulting, walking on your hands, and bursting up through the surface like a tortoise. But when a thunderstorm comes and a little brother ventures too close to the pool's edge, will our main character be quick enough and brave enough to save the day?"--
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (32 p : col. ill.)
Description
Now that Stewie has learned the rules of water safety, he's ready for swimming lessons with his new friends Avery the Otter, Cameron the Frog, Hunter the Puppy, Susannah the Swan, and Swim Coach Rob.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
327 pages : map ; 21 cm
Description
Expelled from their secondary school in East Germany because of their rebellious attitudes, Hanna and Andreas plan to escape by swimming across the cold and choppy waters of the Baltic Sea in a harrowing twenty-five hour journey to freedom in West Germany. Hanna is an accomplished distance swimmer, Andreas is not, and the danger of being caught, drowning, or dying of exhaustion is very real-- but the two teenagers are desperate to escape their lives...
Author
Description
The inspirational story of a group of impoverished children who were transformed into champion swimmers. In 1937 an ordinary grammar school teacher on the island of Maui took a group of underprivileged children, mostly of Japanese ancestry, and in three short years transformed them into Olympic champions.
9) Grayson
Author
Description
The author describes how, while training for a long-distance swim off the coast of California, she encountered a baby gray whale that had become separated from its mother and had been following her instead, and relates her efforts to find the baby's mother.
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Formats
Description
"In a quiet New England community members of swim team and their dedicated parents are preparing for a home meet. The most that Annie, a swim-mom of two girls, has to worry about is whether or not she fed her daughters enough carbs the night before; why her husband, Thomas, hasn't kissed her in ages; and why she can't get over the loss of her brother who shot himself a few years ago. But Annie's world is about to change. From the bleachers, looking...
12) Lottie & Walter
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Description
Lottie secretly knows there is a shark in the pool waiting to eat her, until her new walrus friend, Walter, helps her to conquer her fear.
13) Unsettled
Author
Description
Young Nurah reluctantly moves with her family from Karachi, Pakistan, to Peachtree City, Georgia, but, after some ups and downs, begins to feel at home.
14) I'm a duck
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
Description
One day, an egg rolled out of a nest and right into a deep pond. Now that egg is a little duck, and the water is still very scary. Jumping into the pond at all seems impossible, never mind swimming in a line with all his brothers. "You're a duck, and ducks don't sink," Big Frog points out. Practicing in a puddle helps a little, while backrubs and snacks from his mother help a little more. Big Frog offers to hold his friend's wing and dive in together,...
Author
Series
Baloney and friends volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
84 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"Meet Baloney! He's a pig. This book is about him. And also Peanut, his best friend. There's Bizz, too, of course. And Krabbit. He'd rather not be here, but what can you do?"--Provided by publisher.
18) Find a way
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
x, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm.
Description
"On September 2, 2013, at the age of 64, Diana Nyad emerged onto the shores of Key West after completing a 110 mile, 53 hour, record-breaking swim through shark-infested waters from Cuba to Florida. Her memoir shows why, at 64 she was able to achieve what she couldn't at 30 and how her repeated failures contributed to her success"--
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
x, 225 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Cox swam the English Channel at fifteen, and was the first to swim off Antarctica in 32-degree water without a wetsuit. But this story starts at a laboratory at the University of London, with Cox hooked up to thermocouples and probes, with three scientists trying to make sense of her extraordinary human capabilities. The test results paved the way for new medical and life-saving practices. When Cox was later diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (AFib),...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
26 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 24 x 31 cm.
Description
Abigail dreads swimming lessons. Every time she dives into the pool, she makes a big splash, and all the girls in her class shout: Abigail's a whale! Abigail can see that she is larger than the other girls. She feels huge, heavy, and out of place. Abigails swimming teacher takes her aside and points out: we can change how we see ourselves.
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