Short

Short PDF

Author: John Schwartz

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2010-04-13

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1429953020

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A SURVIVAL GUIDE TO GROWING UP SHORT. Part science book, part memoir—a book for everyone concerned about looking (or feeling) different. When veteran journalist John Schwartz took a close look at famous height studies, he made a surprising discovery: being short doesn't have to be a disadvantage! Part advice book, part memoir, and part science primer, this fascinating book explores the marketing, psychology, and mythology behind our obsession with height and delivers a reassuring message to kids of all types that they can walk tall—whatever it is that makes them different. Short is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Walking Tall

Walking Tall PDF

Author: Peter Crouch

Publisher: Hodder

Published: 2008-11-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780340937136

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He is 6ft 7in tall but Peter Crouch's height is not the only thing that makes the Liverpool and England striker different: he has a football story like no other player in the modern game. Crouch has risen from humble beginnings at non-league Dulwich Hamlet on loan to be an England striker and the first to score ten international goals in a calendar year. His career has not been the smooth journey from teen prodigy to Premiership star enjoyed by so many of his England team-mates. Booed by England fans in October 2005, Crouch had the same supporters on their feet with a hat-trick for his country eight months later. WALKING TALL is about a footballer who has always found himself under intense scrutiny - for the way he looks as much as his ability on the pitch. Crouch's story is also about his constant battle to win over the doubters. He talks about the managers who have backed him - as well as those who have written him off - and relives the pain of rejection at Aston Villa, contrasted with the elation of his £7 million transfer to Liverpool just one year later in the summer of 2005. Crouch was a key figure in England's 2006 World Cup campaign and in WALKING TALL he talks about his famous robot dance as well as the goals and the disappointments of that summer in Germany. For Crouch, the journey continues under Rafael Benitez at Anfield and with Fabio Capello's England team. Funny, honest and open, WALKING TALL is the story of an unlikely hero.

Walking Tall

Walking Tall PDF

Author: Clay Rivers

Publisher:

Published: 2012-09

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780979174155

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In a world that associates stature, physical perfection, and race with a person's value, "Walking Tall" is about harnessing the power of self-worth as experienced by an African American, gay, Christian man who also just happens to be a dwarf. From early lessons in the deep south to escapades as Donald Duck at Walt Disney World to the Skittles-ridden cat and mouse games on his psychologist's couch, and finally to the finish line of accepting and loving himself, "Walking Tall" is brisk reading, full of charm, and has a devilish sense of humor. For anyone who has ever felt the slightest bit uncomfortable in their own skin, has been afraid to wrestle personal demons into submission or may have missed the directional signs while walking their own road less traveled, "Walking Tall" is a globe-trotting journey to self-acceptance.

Walk Tall!

Walk Tall! PDF

Author: Sara Meeks

Publisher: Triad Publishing Company (FL)

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 9780937404713

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Do you have: back pain, stooped posture, height loss, Dowager's hump, hip or spine fractures, or poor balance? Try the Meeks Method and see the change.

Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon PDF

Author: Patty Lovell

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011-06-29

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 1101653876

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Be yourself like Molly Lou Melon no matter what a bully may do. Molly Lou Melon is short and clumsy, has buck teeth, and has a voice that sounds like a bullfrog being squeezed by a boa constrictor. She doesn't mind. Her grandmother has always told her to walk proud, smile big, and sing loud, and she takes that advice to heart. But then Molly Lou has to start in a new school. A horrible bully picks on her on the very first day, but Molly Lou Melon knows just what to do about that.

Walking Tall

Walking Tall PDF

Author: Anthony Gunn

Publisher: Hardie Grant

Published: 2008-10-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781740665834

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"Tips on how to deal with fear in everyday life." -- Provided by publisher.

Stand Tall

Stand Tall PDF

Author: Joan Bauer

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2005-08-16

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0142404276

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Tree, a six-foot-three-inch twelve-year-old, copes with his parents' recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school.

Walking Tall

Walking Tall PDF

Author: Rob Heffernan

Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd

Published: 2016-10-01

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 184889600X

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Deemed too small for his school Gaelic football team at the age of fourteen, Rob Heffernan took up race walking on a whim. Driven by a fiercely competitive nature and a dogged desire to be the best, he strode his way to the pinnacle of the sport, winning bronze in the London 2012 Olympics and becoming world champion in Moscow in 2013. In 2016, he became the first athlete to represent Ireland at the Olympic Games for a fifth time. In this no-holds-barred account, Rob describes his battles with injury, depression and poverty on his way to the top. Even when at his best, he found himself cheated out of medals by those who crossed the dark line into doping. He candidly tells of the confrontations with Athletics Ireland and the Irish Sports Council that raged in the background to his struggle for that prestigious Olympic medal. This is the inside story of how one boy's dream led him from the council flats of his tough upbringing to the winners' podium. It is also a heartfelt chronicle of the sometimes nightmare-ridden journey to become a top athlete in this gruelling sport.

So Tall Within

So Tall Within PDF

Author: Gary D. Schmidt

Publisher:

Published: 2018-09-25

Total Pages: 53

ISBN-13: 1626728720

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Shows how the hardships of slavery, particularly the loss of her family, caused Isabella Baumfree to walk towards freedom, to re-invent herself as Sojourner Truth, and to continue walking to abolish slavery and for other reforms.