Touch the Sky
Alice Coachman, Olympic High Jumper
Chicago : Albert Whitman, [2012]
Format: Book
Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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.
Subjects:
Coachman, Alice -- Juvenile literature.
Olympic Games (14th : 1948 : London, England) -- Juvenile literature.
Track and field athletes -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
African American women athletes -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Jumping -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Coachman, Alice -- Juvenile literature.
Olympic Games (14th : 1948 : London, England) -- Juvenile literature.
Track and field athletes -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
African American women athletes -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Jumping -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Target Audience: AD600L
ISBN:
080758035X
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C BIOGRAPHY Coachman, Alice | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Coachman, Alice | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Coachman, Alice | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Coachman, Alice | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Coachman, Alice | Ballentine Indoors | Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Coachman | Edgewood | Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Coachman, Alice | Northeast Indoors | Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Coachman, Alice | Sandhills Indoors | Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Coachman | St. Andrews Indoors | Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Coachman, Alice | St. Andrews Indoors | Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Coachman, Alice | Southeast | Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Coachman, Alice | Southeast | Children's Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references.