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Does your child love adventure but lack the skills to stay safe outdoors? This fun and engaging guide is here to help kids explore nature while building confidence and learning essential survival skills. From packing a bug-out bag to treating minor injuries, your child will discover practical skills like making fire, building shelters, purifying water, and identifying edible plants.

Why does a football spiral? How do some athletes jump so high? The answer is science! The Secret Science of Sports helps kids better understand concepts of science, technology, engineering, and math through the sports they love to play and watch.

Lena Blackburne loved baseball. He watched it, he played it, he coached it. But he didn't love the ways players broke in new baseballs. Tired of soggy, blackened, stinky baseballs, he found a better way. Thanks to a well-timed fishing trip and a top-secret mud recipe, Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud was born. For seventy-five years, baseball teams have used Lena's magic mud to prepare baseballs before every game. Listen to the story of how Lena's mud went from a riverbank to the major leagues and all the way to the Hall of Fame.

When they piled into cars and drove through Durham, North Carolina, the members of the Duke University Medical School basketball team only knew that they were going somewhere to play basketball. They didn't know whom they would play against. But when they came face-to-face with their opponents, they quickly realized this secret game was going to make history. Discover the true story of how in 1944, Coach John McLendon orchestrated a secret game between the best players from a white college and his team from the North Carolina College of Negroes at a time of segregation and racism.

Where do the players go when they’re not on the field? And where do the vendors cook all those hot dogs? Behind the scenes of the sports stadium, there’s a whole world of activity that keeps the stadium running. Let’s go under the lights to spot the secrets of a sports stadium.