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Author:: Checkoway, Julie,.
Title:: The three-year swim club : the untold story of Maui's Sugar Ditch kids and their quest for Olympic glory / Julie Checkoway.
Publisher:: Grand Central
Description:: 432 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:: Olympic Games--(14th :--1948 :--London, England.)
Swimming--Maui--Maui--History.
Japanese American children--Maui.--Maui.
Swimmers--Maui--Maui--Biography.
Olympics.
Summary:: 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.
ISBN:: 1455523445 (hardcover)
9781455523443 (hardcover)
Locations:: GFPE771 -- Altoona Public Library (Altoona); WKPE185 -- Cherokee Public Library (Cherokee); VOPB384 -- Conrad Public Library (Conrad); EBPE325 -- Estherville Public Library (Estherville); NBPB943 -- Lehigh Public Library (Lehigh); BVPE851 -- Nevada Public Library (Nevada); ENPC715 -- Sanborn Public Library (Sanborn); BNPD611 -- Winterset Public Library (Winterset)

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