The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory

by Julie Checkoway

Book Overview

The New York Times bestselling inspirational 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 and were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1455523453
• ISBN13: 9781455523450
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.2" x 8.0"