skis and skiing

Text and photographs introduce a nine-year-old ski enthusiast from Sun Valley, Idaho.

Sandro Birch has a good chance of making the ski team and having a real family with his girlfriend, but first he must deal with his anger against his father, especially after the man returns after a seventeen-year absence.

Noah French was an expert skier until he broke his leg, and now he won't get back on skis. His parents take him to stay at the Kickingbird Lake Resort, where Robbie and Rebeka, ghost twins, watch him play a computer skiing game. After their ghost St. Bernard gets into the computer, the twins must help the dog get out and help Noah get back to skiing on a real mountain.

Three children go skiing with their parents for the day.

Karen can't wait to go skiing, but she keeps falling down on the slopes and hates it.

Kate arrives at Snow Angel Valley with two friends for a vacation of fun, flirting, and skiing, only to find that they will have to share the condo with her brother Sam and his friends, but she is not too disappointed when she discovers Sam's cute friend Joe has a crush on her.

Discusses the history of skiing, from twenty thousand years ago--during the Ice Age--to the modern sport of the twenty-first century, covering its role as a means of transportation and survival, a leisure and sporting activity, and important element during polar explorations and times of war.

Discusses the sport of extreme downhill skiing, including the unique equipment, safety measures, and aerial stunts.

A simple introduction to the Olympic sport of snow skiing.

Describes the daily work of Leslie Felts, one of the ski patrollers giving guidance, support, and emergency medical assistance to the skiers at the Monarch Ski Area in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.