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Author:

Malaspina, Ann, 1957-

Title:

Touch the sky : Alice Coachman, Olympic high jumper / by Ann Malaspina ; illustrated by Eric Velasquez.

Publisher:

Albert Whitman,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

1 vol. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Subject:

Coachman, Alice--Juvenile literature.
Track and field athletes--United States--Juvenile literature.
African American women athletes--United States--Juvenile literature.
Jumping--United States--Juvenile literature.
Olympic Games--(14th :--1948 :--London, England)--Juvenile literature.
Coachman, Alice--Fiction.
Track and field--Fiction.
Olympics--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Family life--Fiction.
Georgia--History--20th century--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Velasquez, Eric, ill.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Summary:

A biography of the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal, from her childhood in segregated Albany, Georgia, in the 1930s, through her recognition at the 1996 Olympics as one of the hundred best athletes in Olympic history. Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

080758035X
9780807580356

OCLC:

(OCoLC)714505142

LCCN:

2011008564

Locations:

MMPE553 -- Algona Public Library (Algona)

GFPE771 -- Altoona Public Library (Altoona)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

WZPC325 -- Armstrong Public Library (Armstrong)

FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

JMPC081 -- Madrid Public Library (Madrid)

D8PD522 -- North Liberty Community Library (North Liberty)

VKPE334 -- Oelwein Public Library (Oelwein)

NUPD663 -- Osage Public Library (Osage)

AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)

VQPC384 -- Reinbeck Public Library (Reinbeck)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

SKPC094 -- Sumner Public Library (Sumner)

MRPB553 -- Titonka Public Library (Titonka)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)