Nitz, Kristin Wolden

Introduces the history, equipment, skills, and strategies of softball.

When eleven-year-old Kate and her younger brother Michael encounter a baby griffin in an Italian garden, they vow to help the creature find its way back home and to keep Griffo's existence a secret.

Introduces the history, equipment, skills, and strategies of softball.

Thirteen-year-old Irene Benenati, a top soccer player on the girl's team at her Missouri school, plays on a fiercely competitive boy's soccer team during the year her family spends in Italy and experiences culture clashes both on and off the field.

Discusses the history of field events, explains how to train to participate in the sport, and features photographs and text that explore the rules, equipment, and techniques of the long jump, triple jump, high jump, pole vault, shot put, and discus throw.

Step-by-step instructions and photographs demonstrate what it takes to win in track; includes an overview of the sport's history and equipment.

As the family gathers at her grandmother's bed-and-breakfast for a murder mystery weekend, seventeen-year-old Jen confronts her ambivalent feelings about her mother, who disappeared fourteen years earlier, and about the possibility that she might be dead.

Introduces the history, equipment, skills, and strategies of softball.