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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Checkoway, Julie.     Subjects     Olympic Games (14th : 1948 : London, England)     Swimming -- Hawaii -- Maui -- History.     Swimmers -- Hawaii -- Maui -- Biography.     Poor children -- Hawaii -- Maui -- Biography.     Japanese American children -- Hawaii -- Maui.     Teachers -- Hawaii -- Maui -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Checkoway, Julie.       by title:      The three-year swim ...       by call number:      LP 797.2106 C514t     Search the Web     Checkoway, Julie.     Olympic Games (14th : 1948 : London, England)     Swimming -- Hawaii -- Maui -- History.     Swimmers -- Hawaii -- Maui -- Biography.     Poor children -- Hawaii -- Maui -- Biography.     Japanese American children -- Hawaii -- Maui.     Teachers -- Hawaii -- Maui -- Biography.       MARC Display

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. Grand Central Publishing, 2015. Call #: LP 797.2106 C514t Subjects Olympic Games (14th : 1948 : London, England)   Swimming -- Hawaii -- Maui -- History.   Swimmers -- Hawaii -- Maui -- Biography.   Poor children -- Hawaii -- Maui -- Biography.   Japanese American children -- Hawaii -- Maui.   Teachers -- Hawaii -- Maui -- Biography. ISBN:  9781455536276 (hc.) 145553627X (hc.) Edition:  [Large print ed.] Description:  viii, 657 pages (large print), 16 unumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-629). Contents:  Preface -- Part One: Such Stuff as Dreams (1932-1937) -- Chapter One: To Race with Giants -- Chapter Two: Hardhead -- Chapter Three: A Wide Awakening -- Chapter Four: The Pursuit of Greater Ventures -- Part Two: On Such a Sea (1938) -- Chapter Five: An Exercise of Will -- Chapter Six: Owing to the Protracted Hostilities -- Chapter Seven: Keeping 1940 in Mind All the Time -- Part Three: Taken at the Flood (1939) -- Chapter Eight: Down Under -- Chapter Nine: Youths of the Sea -- Chapter Ten: The Coup -- Part Four: A Tide in the Affairs of Men (1940-1941) -- Chapter Eleven: A Season of Flame -- Chapter Twelve: Santa Barbara -- Chapter Thirteen: Mr. Smith Comes to Maui -- Chapter Fourteen: Blitzkrieg-- Part Five: Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight (Nana korobi, ya oki) (1944-1948) -- Chapter Fifteen: Go for Broke -- Chapter Sixteen: Home Front -- Chapter Seventeen: Detroit, Redux (1948) -- Chapter Eighteen: Goals and Sacrifices. 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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Home Delivery - HN Adult Large Print Nonfiction LP 797.2106 C514t Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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