The Race of the Century: The Battle to Break the Four-Minute Mile (Scholastic Focus)

by Neal Bascomb

Book Overview

Highly acclaimed author Neal Bascomb brings his peerless research and fast-paced narrative style to a young adult adaptation of one of his most successful adult books of all time, The Perfect Mile, an inspiring and moving story of three men racing to achieve the impossible -- the perfect four-minute mile.

There was a time when running the mile in four minutes was believed to be beyond the limits of human foot speed. In...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1338628461
• ISBN13: 9781338628463
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Scholastic Focus
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12