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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.
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The item The three-year swim club : the untold story of Maui's Sugar Ditch kids and their quest for Olympic glory, Julie Checkoway. represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The three-year swim club : the untold story of Maui's Sugar Ditch kids and their quest for Olympic glory
- Title
- The three-year swim club
- Title remainder
- the untold story of Maui's Sugar Ditch kids and their quest for Olympic glory
- Statement of responsibility
- Julie Checkoway.
- Title variation
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- 3-year swim club
- three-year swim club
- Title variation remainder
- the untold story of Mauis Sugar Ditch Kids and their quest for Olympic glory
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- trueHawaii
- Japanese American children -- Hawaii | Maui
- trueJapanese Americans
- Olympic Games, 1948, London, England
- trueOlympic games
- Olympics
- trueCoaching (Athletics)
- trueEast Asian Americans
- Swimmers -- Hawaii | Maui -- Biography
- trueSwimming
- Swimming -- Hawaii | Maui -- History
- trueTeachers
- truePoor children
- trueSugar plantations
- trueSwimmers
- Language
- eng
- 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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- 10448637
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- Checkoway, Julie
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- non fiction
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- Olympic Games
- Japanese American children
- Swimming
- Swimmers
- Olympics
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- the untold story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and their quest for Olympic glory
- Label
- The three-year swim club : the untold story of Maui's Sugar Ditch kids and their quest for Olympic glory, Julie Checkoway.
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- Control code
- 1411787
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 432 pages
- Isbn
- 9781455523443
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
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- unmediated
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- rdamedia
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- (Sirsi) i9781455523443
- (OCoLC)907157329
- Label
- The three-year swim club : the untold story of Maui's Sugar Ditch kids and their quest for Olympic glory, Julie Checkoway.
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1411787
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 432 pages
- Isbn
- 9781455523443
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781455523443
- (OCoLC)907157329
Subject
- trueHawaii
- Japanese American children -- Hawaii | Maui
- trueJapanese Americans
- Olympic Games, 1948, London, England
- trueOlympic games
- Olympics
- trueCoaching (Athletics)
- trueEast Asian Americans
- Swimmers -- Hawaii | Maui -- Biography
- trueSwimming
- Swimming -- Hawaii | Maui -- History
- trueTeachers
- truePoor children
- trueSugar plantations
- trueSwimmers
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