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Aug 11, 2015 | ISBN 9780448483078 | Middle Grade (8-12) Buy *This format is not eligible to earn points towards the Reader Rewards program
Aug 11, 2015 | ISBN 9780698412354 | Middle Grade (8-12) Buy
Aug 02, 2016 | 56 Minutes | Middle Grade (8-12) Buy
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Aug 11, 2015 | ISBN 9780448483078 | Middle Grade (8-12)
Aug 11, 2015 | ISBN 9780698412354 | Middle Grade (8-12)
Aug 02, 2016 | ISBN 9780735206335 | Middle Grade (8-12)
56 Minutes
A young boy who delivered groceries and worked in a shoe-repair shopThe winner of four Olympic gold medals in track and fieldOne of the greatest athletes of the twentieth century
At the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, track and field star Jesse Owens ran himself straight into international glory by winning four gold medals. But the life of Jesse Owens is much more than a sports story. Born in rural Alabama under the oppressive Jim Crow laws, Owens’s family suffered many hardships. As a boy he worked several jobs like delivering groceries and working in a shoe repair shop to make ends meet. But Owens defied the odds to become a sensational student athlete, eventually running track for Ohio State. He was chosen to compete in the Summer Olympics in Nazi Germany where Adolf Hitler was promoting the idea of “Aryan superiority.” Owens’s winning streak at the games humiliated Hitler and crushed the myth of racial supremacy once and for all.
James Buckley has written more than 100 books for children, including Curious About Pluto, The Moon, and Home Address: ISS, The… More about James Buckley, Jr.
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James Buckley has written more than 100 books for children, including Curious About Pluto, The Moon, and Home Address: ISS, The International Space Station, for the Penguin-Smithsonian line.
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