The ocean was charged with energy as if a squall was moving in; whatever it was felt large enough to be a white shark coursing beneath her body. This is the story—part mystery, part magical tale—of what happened. In fact, it was a baby gray whale. Something so enormous—the mother whale would be at least fifty feet long—suddenly seemed very small in the vast Pacific Ocean.

Lynne quickly realized that if she swam back to the pier, the young calf would follow her to shore and die from collapsed lungs. On the other hand, if lynne didn’t find the mother whale, the baby would suffer from dehydration and starve to death. The true story of a miraculous encounter between a teenaged girl and a baby whale off the coast of California It was the dark of early morning; seventeen-year-old Lynne Cox was swimming her last half mile back to the pier after a long workout when she became aware that something was swimming with her.

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Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer

Lynne writes the same way she swims, with indefatigable spirit and joy, and shares the beauty of her time in the water with a poet's eye for detail. Now in paperback, with photos and maps added especially for this new edition, here is the acclaimed life story of a woman whose drive and determination inspire everyone she touches.

In between those accomplishments, narrowly escaped a shark attack off the Cape of Good Hope, she became the first to swim the Strait of Magellan, and was cheered across the twenty-mile Cook Strait of New Zealand by dolphins. Sports. She even swam a mile in the Antarctic. Lynne cox started swimming almost as soon as she could walk.

She has accomplished yet another feat--writing a new classic of sports memoir. By age sixteen, she had broken all records for swimming the English Channel. Lynne Cox. Her daring eventually led her to the Bering Strait, where she swam five miles in thirty-eight-degree water in just a swimsuit, cap, and goggles.

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The Power of One: Young Readers' Condensed Edit

For he embarked on an epic journey, where he would learn the power of words, the power to transform lives, and the mystical power that would sustain him even when it appeared that villainy would rule the world: The Power of One. Sports. In 1939, hatred took root in South Africa, where the seeds of apartheid were newly sown.

But his dreams were nothing compared to what awaited him. Memoir. He spoke the wrong language–English. Yet he vowed to survive–he would become welterweight champion of the world, he would dream heroic dreams. He was nursed by a woman of the wrong color–black. There a boy called Peekay was born. His childhood was marked by humiliation and abandonment.

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Girl with a Pearl Earring: A Novel

. Sports. Girl with a pearl earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius. Memoir. Even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil. Lynne Cox. The new york times bestselling novel by the author of a single thread and at the edge of the OrchardTranslated into thirty-nine languages and made into an Oscar-nominated film, starring Scarlett Johanson and Colin FirthTracy Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly-imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings.

History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Great product! .

When My Name Was Keoko

Sun-hee and her older brother, Tae-yul, live in Korea with their parents. But the greatest shock of all comes when Tae-yul enlists in the Japanese army in an attempt to protect Uncle, who is suspected of aiding the Korean resistance. Memoir. Sports. Great product! Sun-hee stays behind, entrusted with the life-and-death secrets of a family at war.

Their own language, their flag, the folktales Uncle tells them—even their names—are all part of the Korean culture that is now forbidden. Lynne Cox. Because korea is under Japanese occupation, the children study Japanese and speak it at school. When world war ii comes to korea, Sun-hee is surprised that the Japanese expect their Korean subjects to fight on their side.

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Lynne Cox. Sports. Vocabulary workshop aids the student in using words in context, prefixes, analogies, synonyms, suffixes, and roots. Memoir. Great product! Harcourt Brace and Company.

Swimming in the Sink: A Memoir

Sports. In a short period of time, lynne loses her father, and then Cody, and then her mother, her beloved Labrador retriever. But against all odds, and with the support of her friends and family, Lynne begins the slow pull toward recovery, reaching always for the open waters that give her the freedom and mastery that mean everything to her.

But it is a different kind of struggle that pushes her to the brink. Great product! Soon after, lynne herself is diagnosed with a life-threatening heart condition that leaves her unable to swim and barely able to walk. In this stunning memoir of life after loss, open-water swimming legend and bestselling author of Grayson Lynne Cox tells of facing the one challenge that no amount of training could prepare her for.

A celebrated athlete who set swimming records around the world, Lynne Cox achieved astonishing feats of strength and endurance. Lynne Cox. Harcourt Brace and Company. She was the first to swim the frigid waters of the Bering Strait, the Strait of Magellan, and the coast of Antarctica, and she was the fastest to swim the English Channel.

Memoir. What follows is a beautifully poignant meditation on loss and an exhilarating celebration of life as, she begins to find, within the unfamiliar space of vulnerability, to Lynne’s surprise, the greatest treasures—like falling in love.

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Never Cry Wolf : Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves

Lynne Cox. Mowat's account of the summer he lived in the frozen tundra alone-studying the wolf population and developing a deep affection for the wolves who were of no threat to caribou or man and for a friendly Inuit tribe known as the Ihalmiut "People of the Deer"-is a work that has become cherished by generations of readers, an indelible record of the myths and magic of wild wolves.

More than a half-century ago the Canadian Wildlife Service assigned the naturalist Farley Mowat to investigate why wolves were killing arctic caribou. Sports. Memoir. Great product! . Back Bay Books. Harcourt Brace and Company.

Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna

Harcourt Brace and Company. Sports. They follow his mischievous antics as a young Maasai cattle herder, coming-of-age initiation, soccer success, boarding school escapades, and journey to America for college. Back Bay Books. Lekuton's riveting text combines exotic details of nomadic life with the universal experience and emotions of a growing boy.

Memoir. Joseph lemasolai lekuton gives american kids a firsthand look at growing up in Kenya as a member of a tribe of nomads whose livelihood centers on the raising and grazing of cattle. Lynne Cox. Great product! Readers share lekuton's first encounter with a lion, the epitome of bravery in the warrior tradition.

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Literature & Composition: Reading, Writing, Thinking

Great product! Back Bay Books. Harcourt Brace and Company. Sports. Memoir. Literature & composition provides you with everything you need to analyze and write about literature in order to succeed in class while effectively preparing for the AP® Literature exam. Lynne Cox.