Hiking

By Sarah Tieck

Readers will discover how hiking promotes fitness and health in this informative title. Engaging text, full-color photos, and supplemental diagrams introduce them to hiking as an aerobic and muscle-strengthening exercise. Readers will become familiar with hiking gear, such as hiking boots, a compass, and a GPS. Warming up, cooling down, and stretching are also discussed, as well as hiking safety, etiquette, and goal setting. A table of contents, fun facts, a Q&A page, fitness tips, a glossary with phonetic spellings, and an index are included. This book will inspire readers to take to the trails and move their bodies Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Buddy Books is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617835625
• ISBN13: 9781617835629
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Buddy Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.4" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5