Sakamoto's Swim Club - How a Teacher Led an Unlikely Team to Victory

Julie Abery; Chris Sasaki (Illustrator)

The inspirational and little-known story of a dedicated teacher who coached Hawaiian swimmers all the way to the Olympics, beautifully told in simple rhyme.When the children of workers on a 1930s Maui sugar plantation were chased away from playing in the nearby irrigation ditches, local science teacher ...