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The three-year swim club by Julie Checkoway, Julie Checkoway · Booklabria

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The three-year swim club

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The three-year swim club

Name: The three-year swim club
Author: Julie Checkoway, Julie Checkoway

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First published: 2015
Language: English
Editions: 8

Synopsis

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.

Subjects: History
Biography
Swimming
Olympic Games
Olympic Games. fastfst01408249
Swimmers
Set in: Hawaii
Maui

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