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"Using the new C3 Framework for Social Studies Standards, Special Olympics in the Global Citizens: Sports series explores the topic through the lenses of History, Geography, Civics, and Economics. As they read, students will develop questions about the text, and use evidence from a variety of sources in order to form conclusions. Data-focused backmatter is included, as well as a table of contents, author biography, sidebars, bibliography, glossary,...
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Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 volume : illustrations ; 20 cm
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"The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, with over two hundred athletes from fourteen countries. Today, nearly three thousand years after the first Games, the Summer Olympics attract one hundred thousand top athletes from over two hundred countries. Billions of fans around the world cheer on their national teams to bring back the gold."--Amazon.com.
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2006
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96 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 29 cm.
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Highlights in the history of the Winter Olympics from their inception in 1924 to today, including profiles of the Olympic athletes and information on the lesser-known winter sports. Also includes an Olympic almanac with information about each Olympiad.
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"The 1960 Olympic Winter Games were a long-shot effort that succeeded beyond the wildest expectations. Working in a sparsely populated valley in the Sierra Nevada with only rudimentary facilities, organizers created a world-class Olympic site in four short years. For the only time in Olympic history, the venues and athlete residence halls were located in a compact, intimate setting that encouraged sportsmanship and interaction between athletes. There...
10) Remember summer
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As a young woman prepares for the equestrian challenge at the Olympic Games, she falls in love with a man who is hired to protect her and whose profession comes with constant danger.
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Crabtree Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
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32 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
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Describes the swimming and diving events in the Olympic games, including relays, synchronized swimming, and water polo, and includes Olympics trivia and the history of each event at the games.
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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vii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Swimming is a long thread that connects the Olympic heroes of today with the real and mythic ones of the past across more than ten millennia--a recorded history that begins in a cave in the Egyptian desert and sweeps across athletes and poets, statesmenand emperors, humans and gods; across the whole human experience, the entire human story. Splash! weaves a 10,000-year-old tale that begins in a bone-dry cave in the remote southwest corner of Egypt,...
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Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 31
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The Thea Sisters help their friend Beatrice get ready for the Summer Olympics.
16) Grit and gold
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Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2016]
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121 pages cm.
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"Cousins Nate and Rachel travel back in time to see legendary Olympic events and learn what it takes to prepare for greatness"--
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 16
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Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
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70 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
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Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games and are surprised to find what girls of the time were not allowed to do.
18) Downhill racer
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Criterion collection volume 494
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Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2009
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1 DVD (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([18] p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
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A skier desperate to win gold in the Olympics joins an American team only to find that his new coach doesn't agree with how he goes about getting it.
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Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 33
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2007
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87, [24] p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 20 cm.
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Geronimo goes to Athens to report on the Olympics, and after observing some of the games he and detective Hercule Poirat become suspicious about Cyrus von Snootrat who seems to be winning every Olympic event and they decide to investigate him.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
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xiii, 478 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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"Author Maraniss weaves sports, politics, and history into a tour de force about the 1960 Olympics. Along with the unforgettable characters and dramatic contests, there was a deeper meaning to those days at the dawn of the sixties. Change was everywhere. Old-boy notions of Olympic amateurism were crumbling. Rome saw the first doping scandal, the first commercially televised Summer Games, the first athlete paid for wearing a certain brand. In the heat...
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