Bonnie Hinman

Soccer is the most popular sport in the world. Most fans call it football, which is a good name since only feet and sometimes heads are supposed to touch the ball. Americans and Canadians like to do things differently so they call it soccer. Whatever the game is called, it is fast-moving and exciting to watch. Major League Soccer is counting on fans to keep coming to games that offer outstanding displays of athletic ability. FC Dallas was one of the...

Do you play soccer? Millions of girls and boys spend their free time after school and on weekends playing soccer. Most professional soccer players began their careers playing in town leagues while they were children. Vancouver Whitecap player Alphonso Davies came with his parents to Canada as a refugee. He started playing in the Whitecaps youth training program at age 14. He progressed quickly until he made the team. Davies worked hard. In July 2018...

Margot Robbie is an Australian actress and film producer. Robbie knew she wanted to be an actress when she was fifteen. Before moving to the U.S., Robbie acted in a long-running Australian TV show. Her Hollywood breakthrough came when she worked with Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street. Robbie continues to star in movies while she looks to become one of Hollywood's most promising producers. Readers will find out about all facets of the life...

Zendaya was very shy as a small child. That shyness vanished when she began to perform. Her first big break came when she got the part of Rocky Blue for Disney Channel's Shake It Up. At age 16, Zendaya competed on Dancing with the Stars. In addition to singing and dancing, she uses her talents to support many charities by raising money. Open this book to read about this multi-talented singer, dancer, author, philanthropist, and actor.

"Takes a vivid tour of 12 of history's most incredible stories. Discover where Henry Brown mailed himself in a box and how maggots saved lives during the Civil War. Find out how long the shortest war in history lasted and how a single man saved the world in the 1980s"--Provided by publisher.

Rivers have tumbled down mountains and floated lazily through flat plains in the US since long before Europeans first came to this continent. They were the only highways Native Americans used or needed. Even America's first settlers found it much easier to travel on the waterways than to build roads through the forests. Today our inland waterways carry millions of tons of cargo each year. But our waterways have not received the attention needed to...

Leatherbacks are sometimes called the last of the dinosaurs because their ancient ancestors lived when the dinosaurs did. Their ability to swim long distances may be one of the reasons they survived whatever killed most of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. In modern times, one leatherback swam from Indonesia to Oregon. It had traveled 12,774 miles in 647 days, the longest distance ever tracked for a marine animalThese sea turtles are also known...

Get closer to solving the mystery of the Nazca lines with this riveting title. Learn about leading theories, important clues, and study the evidence to develop your on conclusions on how and why the lines were made.

Explores the Battle of San Juan Hill of the Spanish-American War. Authoritative text, colorful illustrations, illuminating sidebars, and questions to prompt critical thinking make this an exciting and informative read.

Tells the story of the convention including events that led up to the Second Continental Congress.