Touch the Sky: Alice Coachman, Olympic High Jumper
by Malaspina, Ann
Biographies/AutobiographiesBlack PeopleJunior Library Guild SelectionCoop. Children's Book CenterNCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies2012 Spring ElementaryIRA Teachers Choices/ILA Teachers ChoiceCanadian Children's Book Centre
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AR Book Level
3.6
AR Points
0.5
Word Count
1,303
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Nonfiction
AR Quiz #
150216 EN
About this book
Free verse tells the story of the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal, from her childhood in segregated Albany, Georgia, in the 1930s through her recognition at the 1996 Olympics as one of the hundred best athletes in Olympic history.