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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.

Label
The three-year swim club, the untold story of Maui's Sugar Ditch kids and their quest for Olympic glory, Julie Checkoway.
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The three-year swim club
Oclc number
907157329
Responsibility statement
Julie Checkoway.
Sub title
the untold story of Maui's Sugar Ditch kids and their quest for Olympic glory
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
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