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The Boys in the Boat (Young Readers Adaptation): The True Story of an American Team's Epic Journey to Win Gold at the 1936 Olympics by Daniel James Brown

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enigmadame's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad tense

4.0

I’m very much looking forward to my kids reading this and figuring (hopefully) some stuff out!

rhodamae's review

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

3.75

caseam's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring slow-paced

3.5

I enjoyed this but I thought it was kind of repetitive with the story. I did however like the story of Joe Rantz. He had such a crappy home-life growing up after his mother passed away and I was just shocked with the way his stepmother treated him.

I liked how there was that "who's who" in the front (I know someone that read the adult version and that is not in there). The diagram in the back were interesting.

I think student that enjoyed Unbroken will like this.

juliehenson4's review against another edition

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3.5

This was the young readers edition.

jennifer_charbo's review against another edition

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adventurous informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

jennifertremblay's review

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adventurous hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective slow-paced

3.0

berlylovestoread's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative fast-paced

4.0

Short and sweet with so much information about rowing and the team and Joe in particular. I listened because I also saw the movie and had heard it was a good audio book and I agree it was well done. I love historical based in true story sports read & movies so this rated high for me.