The daring book for girls /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Buchanan, Andrea J.
Other Authors: Peskowitz, Miriam, 1964-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Collins, [2007]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
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.