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Fastest animals

2010
Outlines the physical and behavioral characteristics of some of the world's fastest animals, including cheetahs, pronghorns, and peregrine falcons. Features full-color photographs and a glossary.

Improving speed

2011
Provides an overview of the different types of speed used in sports and explains how athletes work to improve their speed in various areas.

Quick, Quack, Quick!

1996
A very slow duckling saves his family during a crisis.

The donkey that went too fast

a Philippine folktale
2005
When a boy advises a man that he will get to town more quickly if he goes slowly, the man thinks him foolish and races down the road with his donkey and a load of coconuts.

Quick, slow, mango!

2011
Kidogo the elephant's mother is always urging him to hurry up, while PolePole the monkey's mother cautions her to slow down, but together they learn that slow and fast can both be good.

The Flash

race against time!
2001
After defeating Savitar, Wally West, The Flash, bounches off the Speed Field and spirals through time, encountering dangers he never thought possible and seeing firsthand the repercussions his actions will have on the future.

The Flash

dead heat
2000
Collects five graphic comics that pits The Flash against the menace of Savitar.

Forces & motion

1999
Energetic demonstrations on how to calculate stopping distance, speed and acceleration in the case of a car, motorcycle and a bungee jumper.

The Guinness book of speed facts & feats

1984
Contains information about speeds associated with living things, sports, vehicles, technology, and science.

Zoom!

2003
When Lauretta tries out a 92-speed, silver and gold, dirt-bike wheelchair, she gets a speeding ticket but also helps out her brother.

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