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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Still reeling from the death of his little brother and the sudden departure of his first love Meg, Otis throws himself into swim training with Dara, until Meg returns for the summer and Otis tries to rekindle their relationship.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After her plane crashes into a mountain lake, 19-year-old competitive college swimmer Avery Delacorte, one of only five survivors, must rely on her teammate Colin Shea in ways she never thought possible to survive sub-zero temperatures, minimal supplies and the dangerous wilderness.
Author
Series
Publisher
James Lorimer & Company, Ltd., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A Canadian long-distance swimmer recounts how she prepared for and swam across Lake Ontario as a fourteen-year-old to raise money for a camp for children with cancer.
7) The swimmers
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a crack appears in the pool, a fellowship of swimmers who take comfort in their laps are cast out, including Alice, who, slowly losing her memory, is reunited too late with her estranged daughter, in this intimate story of mothers and daughters, and the sorrows of implacable loss.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A brief biography of Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku, five-time Olympic swimming champion from the early 1900s who is also considered worldwide as the 'father of modern surfing'.
Author
Series
Hundred Oaks volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When high school senior Maggie realizes there is more to life than swimming, she may be placing her long-term friendship with teammate Levi and her hope of an Olympic tryout at risk.
12) Find a way
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
On September 2, 2013, at the age of 64, Diana Nyad emerged onto the shores of Key West after completing a 110 mile, 53 hour, record-breaking swim through shark-infested waters from Cuba to Florida. Her memoir shows why, at 64 she was able to achieve what she couldn't at 30 and how her repeated failures contributed to her success.
13) Synchro boy
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Bart is a teenaged boy drawn to synchronized swimming, which puts his masculinity into question -- and worse, his own expectations.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Aniana del Mar belongs in the water like a dolphin belongs to the sea. That is, until the day Ani's stiffness and swollen joints mean she can no longer get out of bed, and Ani is forced to reveal just how important swimming is to her. What follows is the journey of a girl who must grieve who she once was in order to rise like the tide and become the young woman she is meant to be"--
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Set in the early 20th century, this feel-good underdog story of the first American swimmer to win Olympic gold follows Charles Daniels, who, to overcome his family’s disgrace and his mental health struggles, took to the water in an era when competitive sports were still in their infancy.
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