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Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive
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In 1936, America was years away from war with Nazi Germany. But long before the first battle of World War II, a starter's gun fired the first shot in our battle against the Nazis.
Adolf Hitler viewed the 1936 Berlin Olympics as a chance to show the superiority of the German "race" over the rest of the world. He never expected that an American, let alone a black American, would das... More
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PublisherWalker and Company
BindingHardcover (8 editions)
Reading LevelAges 4-8
# of Pages32
ISBN-10B001G8WFV2
Publication Date12/26/2006
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About (Author) : New York Times best-selling author Carole Boston Weatherford has 34 books of poetry, nonfiction and children's literature, including Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, winner of an ... more
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About Eric Velasquez (Illustrator) : Eric Velasquez is a published author and an illustrator of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Eric Velasquez include The Little Sister, I, Matthew Henson.
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