The daring book for girls / by Buchanan, Andrea J.

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 --…”