Touch the sky : Alice Coachman, Olympic high jumper

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Touch the sky : Alice Coachman, Olympic high jumper

(2012)

By: Malaspina, Ann, 1957-

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:

E/BIOGRAPHY/796.42/COACHMAN,A/MAL

Availability

Locations	Call Number	Status
Kids' Biographies	E/BIOGRAPHY/796.42/COACHMAN,A/MAL	Available

Details

PUBLISHED

Chicago, Ill. : Albert Whitman, 2012

DESCRIPTION

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 29 cm

ISBN/ISSN

9780807580356 (hbk.), 080758035X (hbk.), 080758035X :

LANGUAGE

English

NOTES

A biography of the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal, from her childhood in segregated Albany, Georgia, in the 1930s, through her recognition at the 1996 Olympics as one of the hundred best athletes in Olympic history. Includes bibliographical references

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