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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library Juvenile Biography 1st Floor	J BIO SAKAMOTO		AVAILABLE

Author	Abery, Julie, author.
Title	Sakamoto's swim club : how a teacher led an unlikely team to victory / written by Julie Abery ; illustrated by Chris Sasaki.
OCLC	1247086353
ISBN	9781525300318
	1525300318
Publisher	Toronto, ON : Kids Can Press, 2021.
Description	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 27 cm
LC Subject heading/s	Sakamoto, Soichi, 1906-1997 -- Juvenile literature.
	Swim teams -- Hawaii -- Maui -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Swimming -- Hawaii -- Maui -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Other Genre heading/s	Picture books.
Summary	Simple rhymes and lush illustrations inspired by the sugar plantations of 1930s Maui combine in the lesser-known story of a dedicated science teacher, Soichi Sakamoto, who used innovative techniques to coach his Hawaiian swimming team all the way to the Olympics.

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