Touch the Sky: Alice Coachman, Olympic High Jumper
volume 99, Av2 Fiction Readalong
Published: 2014
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This book has been graded for interest at 6-9 years.
This book was published 2014 by Albert Whitman & Company .
ERIC VELASQUEZ is the author and illustrator of The Price of Freedom , Grandma's Records and Grandma's Gift , a Pura Belpre Award winner. He is also the illustrator of The Piano Man , for which he won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award. Ann Malaspina began her career as a newspaper reporter in Boston, where she wrote about immigrant issues, tenant rights, and poverty. Those stories sparked her interest in people on the margins of society and their battle for recognition and equal rights. She is the author of The Ethnic and Group Identity Movements in the Chelsea House series Reform Movements in American History.
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This book has been nominated for the following awards:
Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award
This book was recognised in the Grades 3-5 category by the Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award.
South Carolina Childrens Junior and Young Adult Book Award
This book was recognised in the Picture Book category by the South Carolina Childrens Junior and Young Adult Book Award.
