swimming

Simple text and photographs present the skills, equipment, and safety concerns of swimming.

The author explains what happened when she was on a training swim in the ocean off the coast of Santa Catalina Island when she suddenly realized a baby gray whale was swimming beside her. Seventeen at the time, Cox knew she must help the young calf find its mother because if it followed her to shore, it would die.

Despite serious obstacles and setbacks, fourteen-year-old Keisha pursues her dream of becoming an Olympic swimmer and medical doctor.

Twelve-year-old Kasienka and her mother have immigrated to Coventry, England from Poland, searching for Kasienka's father, but everyone is unfriendly except for an African neighbor and a boy Kasienka meets at the swimming pool, which is her only refuge from an alien society.

Outlines the basic skills and techniques of synchronized swimming and discusses how to prepare and perform a routine.

Swim team members and best friends Matt, Sean, and Coop, set themselves the summertime goal of seeing a live girl naked, and while the chances of that happening seem very dim, Matt's personal goal to swim the one-hundred-yard butterfly to impress the new girl on the team seems even less likely to happen.

Covers the life and accomplishments of swimmer, Michael Phelps.

When ten-year-old "Scab" McNally takes swimming lessons, he is afraid he will be forced to reveal his secret fear of deep water.

A teenager who dreams of becoming an Olympic swimmer has a romance with a boy from the wrong side of town.

Doris uses her magic string to help one of her ducklings learn to swim.