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Author Abery, Julie, author.

Title Sakamoto's swim club : how a teacher led an unlikely team to victory / written by Julie Abery ; illustrated by Chris Sasaki.

Publication Info. Toronto, ON : Kids Can Press, [2021]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2061132~S1
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 Nichols Juvenile Biography  J BIO SAKAMOTO    AVAILABLE
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Description 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 27 cm
Note "The artwork in this book was rendered digitally in Photoshop."-- title page verso.
Summary Simple rhymes and lush illustrations inspired by the sugar plantations of 1930s Maui combine in the lesser-known story of a dedicated science teacher, Soichi Sakamoto, who used innovative techniques to coach his Hawaiian swimming team all the way to the Olympics.
Audience AD480L Lexile
Decoding demand: 71 (high) Semantic demand: 97 (very high) Syntactic demand: 45 (medium) Structure demand: 85 (very high) Lexile
Subject Sakamoto, Soichi, 1906-1997 -- Juvenile literature.
Children's literature -- Juvenile literature.
Teachers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Swim teams -- Hawaii -- Maui -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Swimming -- Hawaii -- Maui -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Genre Biographies.
Stories in rhyme.
Added Author Sasaki, Chris (Illustrator), illustrator.
ISBN 9781525300318
1525300318
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