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Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds

The Sammy Lee Story

Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds( )
Author: Yoo, Paula
Illustrator: Lee, Dom
ISBN:978-1-58430-247-6
Publication Date:Nov 2010
Publisher:Lee & Low Books, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $24.94
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On a summer day in 1932, twelve-year-old Sammy Lee watched enviously as divers catapulted into the public swimming pool. Sammy desperately wanted to try diving himself, but the Korean American boy-like any person of color-was only allowed to use the pool one day a week.

This discrimination did not weaken Sammy's newfound passion for diving, and soon he began a struggle between his dream of becoming an Olympic champion and his father's wish for him to become a doctor....
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