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Jim Thorpe
original All-American
By Bruchac, Joseph
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-80373-118-9
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Dial Books/Walden Media, c2006.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2006
Gr 6-9 A fictionalized biography. Thorpe spent his life running -running away from school, running on the baseball diamond, running the football, or running to win both the pentathlon and the decathlon in the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm. His accomplishments, his kindness and consideration of others, his defeats, and his exploitation are related in first-person narration, from his childhood on an O...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
