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Author
Series
Carver chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Richard can't wait to show off his skills at a friend's skateboard birthday party, but a note home from his teacher threatens to ruin his plans"--
3) Slam
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically.
12) Stolen identity
Author
Series
Hardy Boys adventures volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
A criminal that seems to be straight out of a Sherlock Holmes novel is out to get brother detectives Frank and Joe in the sixteenth book in the thrilling Hardy Boys Adventures series. An original Sherlock Holmes manuscript was stolen from the Bayport Museum and now pages keep showing up in Frank and Joe's things: their lockers, menus, even the backseat of their car. It's clear someone is out to frame them. But who could it be? The boys try their usual...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"[The author] traces his sons' progression through all the stages of skateboarding: splurging on skate shoes and boards, having run-ins with security guards, skipping classes and defying teachers, painting graffiti, drinking and smoking, and more. As the story veers from funny to treacherous and back, from skateparks to the streets, [the author] must confront his complicity and fallibility. He also reflects on his upbringing in rural New Jersey, and...
15) Minding the gap
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
The most famous skateboarder ever shares the business secrets to his success!
He's the man who put skateboarding on the map. He's the first to land a 900 (two and a half full rotations). He's also among the richest pitchmen in any sport. And, in a sport that's especially youth-oriented, Tony Hawk, a 40-something father of four, still connects with his audience by staying true to who he is.
Moving easily between the ramp and the boardroom,
...17) Under the bridge
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Wearing a police wire, a skateboarding street boy from Spokane confronts the drug dealer who threatens to kill his brother.
Publisher
LUXIN
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Deutsch
Description
In 90 minutes, we see the GDR more sharply, more clearly: the skater subculture shows that not all was grey-on-grey and drab clouds of Trabantfumes. This Wildfremd production (Ronald Vietz& Michael Schobel) by director Marten Persiel takes original clips of the 'wheel-board-riders,' straight out of the East German scene in the '80s, and mixes it with animations and reencounters with theprotagonists today. It is not just a well thought out story on...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old outsider Charlie Han, known as "the short Chinese kid" at school, searches for a talent to improve his popularity, but when he discovers skateboarding, much to the disapproval of his overprotective mother, he also uncovers a huge family secret.
Author
Series
Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Middle-schooler Nate Wright vies against his rival, the "perfect" Artur, to win the grand prize of a customized skateboard in their scout troop contest.
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