Too Cold for Football

Adam Guillain

Description

Omar goes with his family to a research station in Antarctica. Omar's favourite sport is football. He hopes the new friends he meets there will like football too. But when he arrives, Peter is the only other child there, and football is hard to play in the snow! Will Omar find new interests with Peter in his snowy surroundings? Or is he bound for a boring and lonely trip?

Informations

• Publié par: Capstone Global Library
• Date de parution: 15 avril 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781398218338
• Langue: English

Extrait

Too Cold for Football
Level 26 Fiction
Word count: 1,490
Curriculum links: friendship, social studies, sports
Text type: fiction
Extending v ocabulary: battery, climate change, igloo, research, sculpture, snowmobile,solar, trek
Example questions: Why might Omar have thought he and Peter would not become friends when they first met? Omar and Peter had very different interests .What activities did Omar learn from Peter? What did Peter learn from Omar? Why did Omar have to practise cross-country skiing before he could make the trek to the bay?
Pro gramme link: Continents of the World (NF)
Too Cold for Football
by Adam Guillain illustrated by Nina de Polonia-Nill
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Editorial credits Marissa Kirkman, editor; Dina Her, designer; Katy LaVigne, production designer
Too Cold for Football ISBN: 978 1 3982 0209 2ISBN: 978 1 3982 1833 8 (ebook)
Contents
Chapter 1 A wonderful adventure .................. 4
Chapter 2 Trek to the bay ......................... 12
Chapter 3 Making a friend ......................... 22
Chapter 4 An amazing view ....................... 28