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

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

Julie Checkoway

432 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history sports hopeful slow-paced
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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 u...

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inspiring 100%
informative 83%
hopeful 50%
emotional 33%
adventurous 16%
challenging 16%
reflective 16%

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medium 50%

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