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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( )
Author: Checkoway, Julie
ISBN:978-1-4555-2344-3
Publication Date:Oct 2015
Publisher:Grand Central Publishing
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $27.00
Book Description:

The New York Times bestselling inspirational story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers. In 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken sugar plantation kids to swim upstream against the current of their circumstance. The goal? To become Olympians. They faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles. The children were Japanese-American and were malnourished and barefoot....
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Book Details
Pages:432
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Sports
Sports & Recreation / Water Sports / Swimming & Diving
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.25 x 9.375 x 1.5 Inches
Book Weight:1.49 Pounds



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