"Learn the basics to tumbling: common moves, a typical routine, and key legendary gymnasts" --

Provides a simple guide to the rules, equipment, and techniques of gymnastics. Features color photographs, quotes, fact boxes, sidebars, a glossary of terms, and further resources.

Lucy feels lost at gymnastics without her pet rat Ajax.

"A survey of the highlights and legendary athletes--such as Romanian Nadia Comaneci--of the Olympic sport of gymnastics, which has been part of the modern Summer Games since 1896"--Provided by Publisher.

Eighth-grader Tamaya Jackson is captain on her gymnastics team, but she sometimes feels like her coach spends a lot more time with the other gymnasts, and that she is expected to do more with less help--and an interview with the local TV station only makes matters worse when it focuses on her and makes her teammates jealous, so somehow Tamaya and the others must pull it all together because a regional competition is coming up fast.

Presents a study of the physical forces at work during a gymnastics competition, exploring the science of how gymnasts jump, flip, and spin in their performances.

The Summer Olympics inspires Kylie Jean Carter to take gymnastics lessons, but even better than that is making a new friend, Abby, who is deaf, and starting to learn sign language.