Swim to Win

by Vallery Hyduk

Overview

Birch Hill Swim Club has a new coach and the team's star swimmer, eighth-grader Lasha Boyko, couldn't be more excited. Even though the lanky swimmer comes from an immigrant Ukrainian family of modest means, she dreams big. The coach has a track record of producing Olympians and Lasha wants to be her next star. The hitch is that she's one of the fiercest trainers in world. To achieve her lofty goals, Lasha must look within herself to find the strength. Can she be a champion?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781552776674
Publisher:	James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Publication date:	09/26/2011
Series:	Lorimer Sports Stories Series
Sold by:	De Marque
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1
Lexile:	690L (what's this?)
File size:	504 KB
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

VALLERY HYDUK swam competitively for twelve years. For nine of those years, she competed at the national level. At sixteen, she was ranked 16th in the world. She attended the University of Michigan on an athletic scholarship. Vallery now owns her own television production company in Toronto and writes for television, radio, and the Web. She is a member of the Ontario College of Teachers, Canadian Women in Communications, and the Canadian Film and Television Producers Association.

Table of Contents

1 The New Coach 9

2 The Bully and the Boy 20

3 The Push-up Test 25

4 The Zone 36

5 Art Class 44

6 The Qualifier 49

7 Detention 58

8 The Quitter 71

9 The Scholarship 88

10 The Preliminaries 98

11 The Finals 112

Editorial Reviews

"The swimming details are authentic."

The Horn Book Guide

"Knowledgeable swimmers will truly appreciate [Lasha's] efforts and achievements...Lorimer is obviously succeeding with this series of action-driven novels which encourage young readers to 'Get in the Game!'"

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