Olympics category: 421 books
LeBron James
Basketball Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Did you know LeBron James averaged more than 30 points a game as a senior in high school? Discover how an amazing high school player went on to become an outstanding NBA star!
The Matchless Six
The Story of Canada's First Women's Olympic Team
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
It is July 1928, and Canada’s first women’s Olympic team — “The Matchless Six” — is heading to Amsterdam, the site of the ninth Olympiad of the modern era. Canada’s finest female track-and-field athletes, having survived rigorous training and the grueling selection process at the Olympic...
Kerri Strug and the Magnificent Seven (Totally True Adventures)
How USA's Gymnastics Team Won Olympic Gold
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Can Kerri Strug help Team USA win Olympic gold? Discover an inspiring American gymnastics story with this unforgettable Totally True Adventure.
In 1996, seven gymnasts—the Magnificent Seven—are America’s best chance to win its first team gold medal. Kerri Strug is one of them. After years...
The 4 Year Olympian
From First Stroke to Olympic Medallist
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
Improbable, heart-wrenching, and uplifting, Jeremiah Brown’s journey from novice rower to Olympic silver medallist in under four years is a story about chasing a goal with everything you’ve got.
After nearly being incarcerated at age seventeen and becoming a father at nineteen, Jeremiah...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
The first summer Youth Olympic Games (YOG) were held in Singapore in 2010 and the first winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck in 2012. The IOC hopes that the YOG will encourage young people to be more active and that they will bring the Olympic movement closer to its original founding values.
This...
by The Velominati
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
**Embrace and revel in the stories of the toughest cyclists of all time, told by The Velominati, originators of The Rules. Read and get ready to ride . . . **
In cycling, suffering brings glory: a rider's value can be judged by their results, but also by their panache and heroism. Prepared...
The Man Who Ran Faster Than Everyone
The Story of Tom Longboat
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
Tom Longboat was a hero. A member of the Onondaga Nation, he was born on the Six Nations reserve in Oshwegen, near Brantford, Ontario. Despite poverty, poor training, and prejudice, Longboat went on to become one of the world’s best runners. In 1907, at the height of his fame, he won the Boston...
Beyond Vision
The Story of a Blind Rower
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
At 18 years old, Victoria Nolan found out she was going blind. As her vision became more restricted, so did her independence. Her childhood dream had been to become a teacher, but she had to fight constantly against misconceptions about her capabilities as a visually impaired person. Even starting...
Fighting for Gold
The Story of Canada's Sledge Hockey Paralympic Gold
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Canada is internationally recognized as a leader in men's and women's hockey - but in 2006 Canada had yet to conquer the world of sledge hockey, the Paralympic version of ice hockey played by athletes with a physical disability in the lower part of the body. The Canadian Men's Sledge Hockey team came...
Beyond the Finish Line
What Happens When the Endorphins Fade
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Are you an athlete transitioning from a career in sport and silently struggling along the way? Or perhaps you didn’t realize how you would feel when your athletic career ended and how difficult transitioning to life beyond would be. You are not alone. Krista’s forthright tell-all of her journey...
Ellison "Tarzan" Brown
The Narragansett Indian Who Twice Won the Boston Marathon
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Ellison “Tarzan” Brown was one of America’s premier marathon runners during the 1930s and 1940s. This volume tells the story of his life from the beginning of his budding career in the early 1930s through his untimely death in 1975. With his unorthodox approach to the sport and his spectacular...
The Armchair Olympian
How Much Do You Know About Sport's Biggest Competition?
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Billed as the greatest sporting show on earth, the Olympic Games have produced countless memorable stories of achievement and endurance since entering the "modern" era in 1896.
The major sports take a back seat - some of them long gone from the schedule - as sports fans discover new...
by Luigi Verolino
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 25, 2012
“Fu Luz che mi consentì di arrivare alla vittoria, guardò al di là del colore della pelle. Vide ciò che io rappresentavo come uomo, senza domandare di più in cambio”.
Un gesto sportivo, durante la competizione del salto in lungo nei Giochi della XI Olimpiade moderna, sulla scena della Berlino...
by Ellen Labrecque
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Using the new C3 Framework for Social Studies Standards, Ice Hockey in the Global Citizens: Olympic Sports series explores the sport through the lenses of History, Geography, Civics, and Economics. Text and photos look at the history, basic philosophies, and geography of ice hockey. As they read,...