The three-year swim club
the untold story of Maui's Sugar Ditch kids and their quest for Olympic glory
The three-year swim club
the untold story of Maui's Sugar Ditch kids and their quest for Olympic glory
large type - 2015
The inspirational story of a group of impoverished children who were transformed into champion swimmers. In 1937 an ordinary grammar school teacher on the island of Maui took a group of underprivileged children mostly of Japanese ancestry and, in three short years, transformed them into Olympic champions.
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| Barcode | Status | Material Type | CallNumber |
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| 37413316100215 | Checked out | Non-fiction Large Print | LGE-TYPE 797.2109 CHECKOW |
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| التنسيق: | كتاب |
| اللغة: | English |
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New York, NY :
Grand Central Publishing,
2015.
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| الطبعة: | First large print edition. |
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The Three-year Swim Club
the untold story of Maui's Sugar Ditch kids and their quest for Olympic glory
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حسب Checkoway, Julie
منشور في 2015
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| 300 | |a viii, 657 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-629). | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Preface -- Part One: Such Stuff as Dreams (1932-1937) -- Chapter One: To Race with Giants -- Chapter Two: Hardhead -- Chapter Three: A Wide Awakening -- Chapter Four: The Pursuit of Greater Ventures -- Part Two: On Such a Sea (1938) -- Chapter Five: An Exercise of Will -- Chapter Six: Owing to the Protracted Hostilities -- Chapter Seven: Keeping 1940 in Mind All the Time -- Part Three: Taken at the Flood (1939) -- Chapter Eight: Down Under -- Chapter Nine: Youths of the Sea -- Chapter Ten: The Coup -- Part Four: A Tide in the Affairs of Men (1940-1941) -- Chapter Eleven: A Season of Flame -- Chapter Twelve: Santa Barbara -- Chapter Thirteen: Mr. Smith Comes to Maui -- Chapter Fourteen: Blitzkrieg-- Part Five: Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight (Nana korobi, ya oki) (1944-1948) -- Chapter Fifteen: Go for Broke -- Chapter Sixteen: Home Front -- Chapter Seventeen: Detroit, Redux (1948) -- Chapter Eighteen: Goals and Sacrifices. | |
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