Blazers: Skydiving

Product Description

Close your eyes and imagine you can take a step and enter into nothingness. With only a lightweight piece of equipment to stop you, you continue falling until just the right time. With a boom, your canopy opens, slowing your free fall. This is the extreme sport of skydiving. Introduced in this volume of the "To the Extreme" series, young and reluctant readers learn the basics of this sport. Author Mandy Marx provides information on the equipment required, as well as the detail of actually diving. Small information balloons include details, which help to create a more complete picture of this sport for readers. Wonderful color photography enhances the facts learned within the pages. While most people see skydiving (falling out of a plane and opening a parachute) as an activity unto itself, Mandy Marx touches on the actual sports in which skydivers compete. Books like this that bring new information to younger and reluctant readers are very valuable in the middle and elementary school library. Interestingly, not only does it include specific Web sites, but it also includes the "Fact Hound" site and instructions for doing research—a librarians dream. The back of the book includes resources for further research and a glossary.