Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story cover

Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story

Author: Yoo, Paula

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level 5.2
Points 0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 1807
Points per Word 0.000277
Page Count 32
Points per Page 0.015625

Description

This inspirational true story tells how Sammy Lee, a Korean American, overcame discrimination to realize both his father's desire that he become a doctor and his own dream of becoming an Olympic champion diver.