The Daring Book for Girls 9780061840739, 9780061472572, 0061472573, 0061840734

The Daring Book for Girls is the manual for everything that girls need to know--and that doesn't mean sewing button

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English Pages 288 pages Year 2009;2007

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The Daring Book for Girls
 9780061840739, 9780061472572, 0061472573, 0061840734

Table of contents :
Essential gear --
Rules of the game: Basketball, netball softball, bowling, darts --
Palm reading --
The history of writing, and writing in cursive italics --
Fourteen games of tag --
Spanish terms of endearment, idioms, and other items of note --
Daring Spanish girls --
Pressing flowers --
Four square --
Princesses today --
How to whistle with two fingers --
Chinese jump rope --
How to tie a sari --
Hopscotch, tetherball, jump rope --
Queens of the ancient world: Wise Artemisia, Salome Alexandra of Judea, Cleopatra of Egypt, Boudica's rebellion against Rome, Zenobia, Queen of the East --
Knots and stitches --
Caring for your softball glove --
Playing cards: hearts and gin --
South Sea Islands --
Putting your hair up with a pencil --
Cartwheels and back walk-overs --
Weather --
Lemon-powered clock --
Snowballs --
Every girl's toolbox --
Going to Africa --
Bandana tying --
Five karate moves --
The daring girls guide to danger --
French terms of endearment, expressions, and other items of note --
Joan of Arc --
Making a willow whistle --
Periodic table of the elements --
Vinegar and baking soda --
Secret garden --
Friendship bracelets --
Slumber party games --
Making a cloth-covered book --
Pirates --
A short history of women inventors, scientists and Olympic firsts --
Sleep outs --
The sit-upon --
Lamp, lantern, flashlight --
Explorers --
Building a campfire --
Campfire songs --
Coolest paper airplane ever --
Abigail Adams' letters with John Adams --
Clubhouses and forts --
Daisy chains and ivy crowns --
God's eyes / Ojos de Dios --
Writing letters --
Reading the tide charts --
Making a Seine net --
Women spies --
How to be a spy --
Climbing --
Lemonade stand --
How to paddle a canoe --
The ultimate scooter --
Bird watching --
Modern women leaders --
Math tricks --
Words to impress --
Tree swing --
Yoga: sun salutation --
Three silly pranks --
What is the Bill of Rights? --
The three sisters --
Peach pit rings --
First aid --
Roller skating --
Boys --
Robert's rules --
Watercolor painting on the go --
Making a peg board game --
Handclap games --
Finance: interest, stocks, and bonds --
Marco Polo and water polo --
How to negotiate a salary --
Public speaking --
Telling ghost stories --
How to change a tire --
Make your own quill pen --
Hiking --
Greek and Latin root words --
Paper flowers and capillary action --
Cootie catchers --
Jacks --
Picking who's it --
Japanese T-shirt folding --
States, statehood, capitals, flowers and trees --
plus Canada! --
Make your own paper --
Books that will change your life --
Badges.

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