Great Moments in the Summer Olympics

By Matt Christopher

Book Overview

The Summer Olympics are chock full of epic athletic achievements across hundreds of disciplines, especially Track and Field, Gymnastics, and Swimming. These are the sports that gave us Jesse Owens and Carl Lewis, Wilma Rudolph and Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Olga Korbut and Mary Lou Retton -- tremendous athletes whose Olympic accomplishments thrill us now just as much as they did when they occurred. Now readers can relive those moments in this fact-filled volume just right for young sports enthusiasts.

And because it's Matt Christopher, young readers know they're getting the best sports writing on the shelf

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316195790
• ISBN13: 9780316195799
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.4"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7