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Adler, David A.
AMERICA'S CHAMPION SWIMMER : GERTRUDE EDERLE
San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 2000.
IL K-3, RL 4.0
ISBN 0152019693
A swimmingly great biography! Gertrude, Trudy to her friends, almost drowned as a child. What a scare! So her father teaches her how to swim. After this, she never stops swimming. She sets many records for both men and women. She even became the first woman to swim the English Channel. Learn how she accomplished this amazing feat by reading America's Champion Swimmer.  (Jean B. Bellavance for Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards, 2003-2004)
SUBJECTS:     Ederle, Gertrude, 1906-
                        Swimmers.
                        Women -- Biography.

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