Age
7-10
Grade
2-4
Jane Sutcliffe, Janice Lee Porter
Jesse Owens
Paperback
(First Avenue Editions TM Aug. 1, 2000)
From the time he was a young boy on a farm in Alabama until he received his fourth Olympic gold medal in Berlin in 1936, all Jesse Owens wanted to do was run. Overcoming sickness, poverty, and racial discrimination, Jesse worked hard, shattered many track and field records, and earned countless medals and trophies. But perhaps his greatest and most important accomplishment came when he stood up to the hatred of Adolf Hitler and proved that the belief in the superiority of German athletes was false. This beautifully illustrated and simply told biography tells the inspirational story of a man with strength of spirit and heart.
- Series
- On My Own Biography
- ISBN
- 1575054876 / 9781575054872
- Pages
- 48
- Weight
- 12.6 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.5 x 0.2 in.
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