Short

Author: John Schwartz
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429953020
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153

Book Description
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.

Walk Tall!

Author: Sara Meeks
Publisher: Triad Publishing Company (FL)
ISBN: 9780937404713
Category : Backache
Languages : en
Pages : 159

Book Description
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.

Buford

Author: W. R. Morris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780915045006
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description

Walking Tall

Author: Clay Rivers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979174155
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
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.

Walking Tall

Author: Peter Crouch
Publisher: Hodder Headline
ISBN: 9780340937129
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
Peter Crouch has risen from humble beginnings at non-league Dulwich Hamlet on loan, and a GBP60,000 transfer to Queens Park Rangers, to be an England striker and the first to score ten international goals in a calendar year. This book discusses about this footballer.

Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

Author: Patty Lovell
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101653876
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
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

Author: Rob Heffernan
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 184889600X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 331

Book Description
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.

Stand Tall

Author: Joan Bauer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0142404276
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
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

Author: Lesley Everett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780954893507
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description

So Tall Within

Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher:
ISBN: 1626728720
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 53

Book Description
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.