walking

While his friend works hard to earn the train fare to Fitchburg, young Henry walks the thirty miles through woods and fields, taking the opportunity to enjoy nature. Includes biographical information on Henry David Thoreau.

Amazing visuals and 3-D images help readers comprehend the remarkable history of human evolution.

"Everyone had high expectations for Hudson Wheeler. His fourth grade teacher even wrote to his parent that Hudson was 'going places.' But everything went downhill after his father dies on the battlefield of Iraq one year later. Now facing his senior year of high school without his tow best friends by his side and with his teacher's letter still haunting him, Hudson seizes homeschooling as an opportunity to retreat from the world. What happens during this year will to be anything but a retreat, as Hudson experiences love and rejection for the first time and solves the painful mystery of the 'the girl in the window'-- an apparition seen only by the WWII vet whose poignant plight forces Hudson out of the comfort zone of boyhood"--Back cover.

Sidney's mother refuses to let him have a dog, so when his friend Sydney comes up with the idea of starting a dog-walking business, it seems like a way to have dogs to play with and make money at the same time--but soon the friends find out that dogs are a lot of work, and can really strain a friendship.

A young girl enjoys a walk in the rain, protected by her hat, coat, boots, and umbrella.

Guide to walking not only as an excellent exercise, but an all purpose pastime.

"Alan Christoffersen, a once-successful advertising executive, wakes one morning to find himself injured, alone, and confined to a hospital bed in Spokane, Washington. Sixteen days earlier, reeling from the sudden loss of his wife, his home, and his business, Alan left everything he knew behind and set off on the cross-country journey of a lifetime. But a vicious roadside stabbing has interrupted Alan's trek and robbed him of his one source of solace: the ability to walk. Homeless and facing months of difficult recovery, Alan has nowhere to turn-- until a mysterious woman enters his life and invites him into her home."--P. [4] of cover.

Now nearly halfway through his trek, Alan Christoffersen walks from South Dakota to Memphis, Tennessee. He covers more than 800 miles on foot, but it's the people he meets along the way who give the journey its true meaning.