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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
1260L
Language
English
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Description
"The University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the nine boys, in the depths of the Great Depression, showed the world what beating the odds really meant. They defeated elite rivals from California and eastern schools to earn the right to compete against the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic Games in Berlin....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The true-life adventure of two men who rowed across the Atlantic Ocean and the history of those who came before More people have climbed Mount Everest than have rowed across the Atlantic. For more than seventy days, Adam Rackley and his rowing partnerate, slept and rowed in a boat seven meters long by two meters wide, in one of the world's most extreme environments. This is his story of adventure, endurance, and self-discovery. They were following...
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Documents the author's efforts to become the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic, describing her battles against storms that nearly killed her, the love affair that inspired her subsequent achievements, and how she learned to embrace her humanity.
7) The novice
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
An obsessive college freshman joins her university's rowing team and undertakes an extreme physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
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Description
Berlin, 1936. The Olympic finals of the eight-oared rowing race. Germany, Italy, USA. The American boat touches the finish line first, beating all odds and sending Hitler away in a silent rage. In the midst of the Great Depression, the nine rowers showed the world what true grit really meant. They were western, working-class boys who never expected to beat the elite teams of the East Coast and Great Britain, yet they did. At the center of the tale...
Publisher
Liberation Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Tobi and Achim have been best friends since childhood. As Achim's relationship with his girlfriend gets more serious, Tobi realizes he has deeper feelings for Achim than he can admit to Achim or even himself. A summer rowing camp allows Tobi to be himself for the first time.
12) The boys of '36
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1936, nine boys from the University of Washington took the rowing world and a nation by storm, when their eight-oar crew team captured the gold medal at the Olympics in Berlin. The boys' victory, and their obstacles, inspired a nation struggling to emerge from the depths of the Depression.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Now a documentary narrated by Common, produced by Grant Hill, Dwyane Wade, and 9th Wonder, from filmmaker Mary Mazzio The moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first all-black high school rowing team in the nation, and in doing so not only transform a sport, but their lives. Growing up on Chicago's Westside in the 90's, Arshay Cooper knows the harder side of life. The street corners are full of gangs,...
