New Releases by Jim Gigliotti

Animal Sports introduces readers to different extreme animal sports practiced around the world!

Water Sports introduces readers to a variety of extreme water sports from around the world!

Describes how animals and athletes safely jump, race, and perform tricks.

Introduces extreme water sports, including bodyboarding, jet skiing, and water polo.

Introduces a variety of extreme sports, including air sports, sports involving animals, board sports, and water sports.

Check out the hottest NFL players of the season! Highlights the hottest teams and players from the past NFL season. Flip through the pages and look at the best of the AFC, then flip the book over and look at the best of the NFC!

The first fantasy football guide for kids ... officially licensed by the NFL! Find out how to play this fun game with your friends, and then use the how-to guide all season long to play for a championship. Includes tips on drafting a team, forming a league, trading players, and winning! Plus a special section ranks all the top players at key positions for the 2010 season.

Provides an overview of the 2010-2011 college basketball teams and players who will battle their way through the season for the chance to become national champions.

Sports in America: a secade by decade history is a full-color, nine-volume history of American athletics through the first decade of the 21st century with the unique perspective of examining sports as social history. Covering historical high points, scandals, records, championships, and the rise of professional athletics this set captures the excitement of the games while documenting how sports have impacted culture; shaped race relations; influenced world events; and much more. Written by a team of top journalists and sportwriters, Sports in America presents compelling and inspiring histories, in a decade-by-decade format, of the sports young readers love to watch and play. Each volume contains an introduction to the decade and year-by-year chapters that recount the important highlights of each time, from the earliest days of the professional leagues to contemporary championships. Sports covered included auto racing, baseball, basketball, boxing, football, golf, gymnastics, hockey, horse racing, the Olympics, tennis, track and field, sailing, soccer, swimming, diving, and many more.

This exciting series teaches readers all there is to know about racing sports.

Super-sized facts, players, and stats about the biggest game in the world.

This exciting series teaches readers all there is to know about racing sports.

Recounts a decade of sports highlights, covering historical high points, scandals, records, and championships.

This volume describes the sports highlights of each year during the nineteen seventies.

A biography of famous African-American runner Jesse Owens.

Covers historical sports milestones in the United States in 2000-2009, including records, championships, and scandals, and describes how sports impacted culture, race relations, and world events during the decade.

Presenting 50 years of sports records, high points, scandals, championships, and much more. 50 Years of American Sports presents in full color the exciting history of American sports from 1960 through 2009. Examining sports as social history, this guide covers the historical high points, scandals, records, championships, and the rise of professional athletics in an engaging decade-by-decade format. It captures the thrill of the games while looking at how sports have impacted culture, shaped race relations, influenced world events, and much more. Written by a team of top sports journalists and sports writers, this comprehensive book presents compelling and inspiring histories of the sports people love to watch and play. Year-by-year chapters recount important sports highlights, and full-color photographs capture some of the greatest moments in sports. Sports covered include: Auto racing Baseball Basketball Boxing Football Golf Hockey Horse racing The Olympics Soccer Tennis and many more.

Are you ready for some football? National Football League (NFL) players thrill millions of fans with their amazing feats. They leap higher, run faster, and hit harder than most fans can dream of. In Game Day: Football, you can learn their secrets! Each book in the series gives readers a close-up look at a different position. Read about the greatest stars of yesterday and today. Find out the tips and techniques that make them winners-and discover how you can use those skills on the field. Game Day: Football is your inside guide to NFL football! Great catch! Speedy, graceful, and tough, receivers are the playmakers on a football team. They outrun, outjump, and outmuscle their opponents. Find out how they come through in the clutch-from running perfect pass patterns to making amazing catches at key moments. Plus, meet some of the greatest stars ever to play the position. Book jacket.

Picked off! Cornerbacks and safeties use speed, daring, and toughness to stop opposing receivers. Learn the skills defensive backs need to cover pass catchers, how they "read" an offense, and what it feels like to make a big interception. Plus, meet some of the greatest stars ever to play defensive back.

Examines the positions of offensive and defensive lineman, discussing history, key skills and tactics, and top players.

Examines the position of linebacker, discussing its history, key skills and tactics, and top players.

This latest offering in the ever-popular Obsessed With series is the football fan''s greatest trivia challenge. With more than 2,500 original questions, this comprehensive yet compact book explores fascinating facts and tempting trivia related to one of the world''s most popular sports. What makes this package truly unique is the electronic scoring module that allows readers to quiz themselves or compete against a friend in the greatest playoff ever. And the new and improved scoring module keeps track of your score from play to play. From the millions of NFL fans to the true fanatics who know every historic play by heart, sports buffs will meet their match in this entertaining and addictive game.

In the complex world of the 21st century, the ability to use innovation to solve problems or make products better is a critical skill for kids to possess. This book uses a sport kid''s love, football, to highlight how innovation has been used to make the game and the people who play it, better

Looks at the specifications and locations of some of the most famous racetracks on the NASCAR circuit.

An introduction to NASCAR races.

Introduces medieval knighthood and the process of becoming a knight, and describes the weapons, armor, and castles of the time.

This book gives details of the life and football career of LaDainian Tomlinson, the San Diego Charger running back who broke an NFL scoring record that had stood for nearly 50 years.

An introduction to the work of the pit crews that comprise NASCAR teams and make it possible for drivers to succeed on the track.

Briefly describes some of baseball''s best contemporary pitchers.

This book gives details of the football career of the Indianapolis Colts quarterback, Peyton Manning.