| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
viii, 279 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Essential gear -- Rules of the game : basketball, netball -- 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 I : Wise Artemisia -- Knots and stitches -- Rules of the game : softball -- 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 -- Rules of the game : bowling -- Queens of the ancient world II : Salome Alexandra of Judea -- Secret garden -- Friendship bracelets -- Slumber party games -- Making a cloth-covered book -- Pirates -- A short history of women inventors and scientists -- Sleep outs -- The sit-upon -- Lamp, lantern, flashlight -- Explorers -- |
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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 tide charts -- Making a Seine net -- Women spies -- How to be a spy -- Climbing -- Queens of the ancient world III : Cleopatra of Egypt -- Lemonade stand -- How to paddle a canoe -- The ultimate scooter -- Bird watching -- Modern women leaders -- Rules of the game : darts -- 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 -- Queens of the ancient world IV : Boudica's rebellion against Rome -- 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 -- Queens of the ancient world V : Zenobia, queen of the east -- Japanese T-shirt folding -- States, statehood, capitals, flowers and trees--plus Canada! -- Make your own paper -- Books that will change your life -- Miscellanea -- Daring book for girls badges. |
| Subject |
Girls -- Life skills guides.
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Girls -- Conduct of life.
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Girls in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Young adult literature.
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| Added Author |
Peskowitz, Miriam, 1964-
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| ISBN |
9780061472572 |
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0061472573 |
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