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1 online resource (viii, 415 pages) : illustrations |
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Intro; Title Page; Welcome; Dedication; Epigraph; 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) |
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CHAPTER ELEVEN: A Season of FlameCHAPTER 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; Photos; Afterword; Author's Notes; Three-Year Swim Club Members; Mahalo Nui Loa/Thank You; About the Author; Also by Julie Checkoway; Praise for ""The Three-Year Swim Club; Reading Group Guide; Discussion Questions |
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A Conversation with Julie CheckowaySection Notes; Newsletters; Table of Contents; Copyright |
| Summary |
For readers of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat comes the inspirational, untold story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers. In 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken sugar plantation kids to swim upstream against the current of their circumstance. The goal? To become Olympians. They faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles. The children were Japanese-American, were malnourished and barefoot and had no pool; they trained in the filthy irrigation ditches that snaked down from the mountains into the sugarcane fields. Their future was in those same fields, working alongside their parents in virtual slavery, known not by their names but by numbered tags that hung around their necks. Their teacher, Soichi Sakamoto, was an ordinary man whose swimming ability didn't extend much beyond treading water. In spite of everything, including the virulent anti-Japanese sentiment of the late 1930s, in their first year the children outraced Olympic athletes twice their size; in their second year, they were national and international champs, shattering American and world records and making headlines from L.A. to Nazi Germany. In their third year, they'd be declared the greatest swimmers in the world, but they'd also face their greatest obstacle: the dawning of a world war and the cancellation of the Games. Still, on the battlefield, they'd become the 20th century's most celebrated heroes, and in 1948, they'd have one last chance for Olympic glory. |
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Offers an inspiring story of how a group of poor Japanese American kids from Hawaii, the children of sugar plantation workers, were transformed into Olympic-level swimming champions. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
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Olympic Games (14th : 1948 : London, England)
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Olympic Games. |
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Swimmers -- Hawaii -- Biography.
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Japanese Americans -- Hawaii -- Biography.
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Japanese American children -- Hawaii -- Maui.
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Swimming -- Hawaii -- Maui -- History.
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Swimmers -- Hawaii -- Maui -- Biography.
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Japanese American children. |
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Swimmers. |
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Swimming. |
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Hawaii -- Maui. |
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Electronic books. |
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Biography.
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History.
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Checkoway, Julie. Three-year swim club New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2015 9781455523443 (NjBwBT)bl2015034797 (OCoLC)907157329 |
| ISBN |
9781455579556 : $41.00 |
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1455579556 : $41.00 |
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