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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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The three-year swim club : the untold story of Maui's Sugar Ditch kids and their quest for Olympic glory
-- 3-year swim club
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The inispirational 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 c hildren mostly of Japanese ancestry and, in three short years, transformed them into Olympic champions.
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Title
The three-year swim club : the untold story of Maui's Sugar Ditch kids and their quest for Olympic glory -- 3-year swim club
Call No
797.21092 Che
Edition
1st. ed.
Authors
Checkoway, Julie
Subjects
Olympic Games (14th 1948 London, England).
Japanese American children--Hawaii--Maui.
Swimming--Hawaii--Maui--History.
Swimmers--Hawaii--Maui--Biography.
Language
English
Published
New York : Grand Central Pub., 2015.
Publication Desc
viii, 415 p. : [16] p. of plates ;
ISBN
9781455523443 (hardcover)
LCCN
2015947608
Dimensions
24 cm.