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Undefeated Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School football team

Native American Jim Thorpe became a super athlete and Olympic gold medalist. Indomitable coach Pop Warner was a football mastermind. In 1907 at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, they forged one of the winningest teams in American football history. Called "the team that inve...

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Main Author: Sheinkin, Steve (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2017.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Thorpe, Jim, > 1887-1953 > Young adult nonfiction.
Warner, Glenn S. > (Glenn Scobey), > 1871-1954 > Young adult nonfiction.
Football > United States > History > Young adult nonfiction.
Off-reservation boarding schools > United States > History > Young adult nonfiction.
Indians, Treatment of > United States > History > 20th century > Young adult nonfiction.
Biographies > Young adult.
Summary: Native American Jim Thorpe became a super athlete and Olympic gold medalist. Indomitable coach Pop Warner was a football mastermind. In 1907 at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, they forged one of the winningest teams in American football history. Called "the team that invented football," they took on the best opponents of their day, defeating much more privileged schools in a series of breathtakingly close calls, genius plays, and bone-crushing hard work. Sheinkin provides a true underdog sports story -- and an unflinching look at the U.S. government's violent persecution of Native Americans and the school that was designed to erase Indian cultures.
Physical Description: 280 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Audience: Young Adult.
980
980L
Awards: Boston Globe/Horn Book Nonfiction Honor, 2017.
Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth, 2017
Horn Book Fanfare List, 2017
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781596439542
1596439548
9780605963221
0605963223
Author Notes: Steve Sheinkin is the award-winning author of fast-paced, cinematic nonfiction histories for young readers. The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights , was a National Book Award finalist and received the 2014 Boston Globe/Horn Book Award for Nonfiction. The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery , won both the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award and the YALSA award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults. Bomb: The Race to Build-and Steal-the World's Most Dangerous Weapon was a Newbery Honor Book, a National Book Award Finalist, and winner of the Sibert Award and YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War was a National Book Award finalist and a YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award finalist. Sheinkin lives in Saratoga Springs, New York, with his wife and two children.

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