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Checkoway, Julie, author.
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Olympic Games (14th : 1948 : London, England)
Swimmers -- Hawaii -- Maui -- Biography.
Swimming -- Hawaii -- Maui -- History.
Japanese American children -- Hawaii -- Maui.
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The three-year swim ...
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The three-year swim club : the untold story of Maui's Sugar Ditch kids and their quest for Olympic glory / Julie Checkoway.
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Checkoway, Julie, author.
New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2015.
Subjects
Olympic Games (14th : 1948 : London, England)
Swimmers -- Hawaii -- Maui -- Biography.
Swimming -- Hawaii -- Maui -- History.
Japanese American children -- Hawaii -- Maui.
ISBN:
9781455523443 :
1455523445
Description:
viii, 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
Part one: Such stuff as dreams (1932-1937). To race with giants ; Hardhead ; A wide awakening ; The pursuit of greater ventures -- Part two: On such a sea (1938). An exercise of will ; Owing to the protracted hostilities ; Keeping 1940 in mind all the time -- Part three: Taken at the flood (1939). Down under ; Youths of the sea ; The coup -- Part four: A tide in the affairs of men (1940-1941). A season of flame ; Santa Barbara ; Mr. Smith comes to Maui ; Blitzkrieg -- Part five: Fall seven times, get up eight (nana korobi, ya oki) (1944-1948). Go for broke ; Home front ; Detroit, redux (1948) ; Goals and sacrifices.
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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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Aina Haina Public Library
Hawaiian Nonfiction
H 797.21092 Ch
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Hawaiian Nonfiction
H 797.21092 Ch
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