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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.
    by Checkoway, Julie, author.
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    New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2015.
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  • Swimmers -- Hawaii -- Maui -- Biography.
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  • Swimming -- Hawaii -- Maui -- History.
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  • Japanese American children -- Hawaii -- Maui.
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    9781455523443 :
    1455523445
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    viii, 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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    First edition.
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    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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