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Did you know that street skateboarders perform incredible tricks by creating obstacles out of structures you might find along a city sidewalk? Street skateboarders jump their boards onto curbs and stairs. They grind down railings. They flip their boards around with their toes.
12) Las patinetas
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16 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Español
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¿Vas en bicicleta a la escuela? Quizá vas en carro o tomas el autobús. Aprende acerca de los muchos tipos de transporte con estos divertidos libros.
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xiii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"What makes a good father, and what makes one a failure? Does less-is-more parenting inspire independence and strength, or does it encourage defiance and trouble? Kickflip Boys is the story of a father's struggle to understand his willful skateboarder sons, challengers of authority and convention, to accept his role as a vulnerable "skate dad," and to confront his fears that the boys are destined for an unconventional and potentially fraught future....
15) Level up
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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David is always about to reach a new level of a video game when his friends invite him to play outside, but while the game is broken, he discovers that learning to skateboard or play basketball can be like "leveling up" in real life.
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248 pages ; 22 cm
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"A collection of long-form essays on joy, in which the author turns his curious and poetic mind to everything from skateboarding and cover songs, basketball and race, dancing and academia, death and laughter, and, always, the garden and the natural world"--
18) Minding the gap
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Criterion collection volume 1061
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The extraordinary debut from documentarian Bing Liu weaves a story of skateboarding, friendship, and fathers and sons into a coming-of-age journey of courageous vulnerability.
19) 1001 cranes
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230 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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With her parents on the verge of separating, a devastated twelve-year-old Japanese American girl spends the summer in Los Angeles with her grandparents, where she folds paper cranes into wedding displays, becomes involved with a young skateboarder, and learns how complicated relationships can be.
20) Dog days
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Gavin wants to make a good impression at Carver Elementary, where no one knows he excels at soccer and skateboarding, but an annoying big sister, a bully, and his great aunt's Pomeranian are not helping.
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