Walk for Your Life!: Restoring Neighborhood Walkways to Enhance Community Life, Improve Street Safety and Reduce Obesity
With obesity at an-all time high, America's children developing into medicated, overweight couch potatoes, and the looming fuel crisis, we need to look at what we can do to improve our societal situation. This thought-provoking book calls for the restoration of a walkable environment as the starting point of a solution to these pressing issues. Topics include: ? The Value of Walking and the Price of Not Walking ? Urban Sprawl and Automobile Dependence ? Underestimating the Problem of the Sedentary Lifestyle ? Children: an Endangered Species, The Older Pedestrian and Taxi Moms ? Driving Fatalities - 2.7 times more frequent than U.S.
New York City's Best Dive Bars by Wendy Mitchell, ISBN 0970312539
With New York City being overrun by cosmo-sipping, trance-listening, couch-sprawling hipsters, it's high time to explore the places where real people do real drinking. Learn which dives have the best jukeboxes, the strongest drinks, and the most fascinating clientele.
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The Dragons of Spratt, Ohio
John Salt loves his baby dragons, all nine of them. He cares for them as if they were his babies -- they are his babies, for Pete's sake -- because, after all, how many kids in Ohio (besides Salt) have a litter of dragons living behind their house? Exactly none, that's how many.
But not everyone loves the dragons as much as Salt. In fact, someone is planning to do them some major -- major -- harm. And once Salt finds out that his babies are in danger, it's up to him and one of his least favorite people, Candi Clark, to save them.
But how can they save the dragons? They're just kids, for cryin' out loud. And Candi is more interested in finding the perfect eye shadow to go with her rhinestone hair clips than anything else, or so she'd like everyone to think. But Salt is a pretty tough kid, for a couch potato, and Candi has a trick or two up her sleeve in this funny novel from the author of the truth about rats, rules, & seventh grade.
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The Flip Side: 64 Point-Of-View Monologs for Teens by Heather Henderson, ISBN 1566080452
Short, breezy, provocative--these monologs are superb for acting exercises, speech and drama contests or for auditions. Each monolog characterization focuses on a topic of interest to middle graders or high school teens. The book is divided into three sections: Ladies..., And Gentlemen...and All Together Now! Within each section the monologs are paired to permit a presentation of a different opinion of the same topic. The two-minute length of most of these monologs makes memorization easy. Suitable for classroom or performance activities. Sample title pairs include: Mirror, Mirror/Princess Pizzaface: I Love Mrs. Smith/Mrs. Splt: Sports Jock/Couch Potato: Fat Kid/String Bean: I'm a Virgin. So Sue Me/My Am Fell Asleep.
The Flip Side: 64 Point-Of-View Monologs for Teens by Heather Henderson, ISBN 1566080452
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