"Rob Lasher is just an ordinary soccer player, good at the game, but not great. Then one afternoon, he saves his coach's life in front of all his teammates. Suddenly, he's the team's hero, when the squad manages to find a replacement coach, he's back on the field with his teammates again. So why isn't Rob happy?"--front inside flap.
A biography of professional football quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning. Describes how they grew up as the sons of quarterback Archie Manning of the New Orleans Saints and rose from high school stars to professional triumph. Includes photos and information on the brothers' best games and career statistics.
Cole Richards, in his fourth year of karate training, is preparing for the test that will move him to the next belt level when his dojo announces a "create-your-own-kata" contest, and between trying to decide which competition to enter, and dealing with tensions with peers and friends, Cole begins to get too stressed.
Feeling guilty after accidentally breaking his friend's leg, Rocky Fletcher takes on extra duties at school, from selling chocolate bars and managing his injured friend's student council campaign to playing both offense and defense on the football team.
Michael Donofrio is taking revenge out on Garry Wallis for sabotaging his chances of becoming the league's top scorer, leading to a series of near-disasters as the bullying gets rougher.
Describes the 1918 influenza pandemic, from how World War I soldiers spread the disease to recent scientific efforts to understand the virus that took between twenty and forty million lives worldwide.
Describes the history of polio, the way it spreads, its major epidemics, treatments such as the iron lung and the Kenny method, and the impact of Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin's vaccines, and includes a time line, glossary, and annotated bibliography.
Describes the 1347-1351 outbreak of plague in Europe, known as the Black Death, which killed one out of three people and changed the course of European history.
