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The three-year swim club [LP] the untold story of Maui's Sugar Ditch kids and their quest for Olympic glory

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 cham...

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Main Author: Checkoway, Julie (Author)
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, 2015.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Oldham, Helen G. tribute.
Tobey, Josh, In Memory.
Olympic Games > (14th : > 1948 : > London, England)
Japanese American children > Hawaii > Maui.
Swimming > Hawaii > Maui > History.
Swimmers > Hawaii > Maui > Biography.
Large print books.
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.
Physical Description: viii, 657 pages (large print), 16 unumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-629).
ISBN: 9781455536276
145553627X
Author Notes: Julie Checkoway is an author and documentary filmmaker. A graduate of Harvard, the Iowa Writers Workshop, and the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, she is also the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts individual artist grant and a Yaddo fellowship. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Salt Lake Tribune, and Huffington Post .

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