Touch the Sky: Alice Coachman, Olympic High Jumper

Touch the Sky: Alice Coachman, Olympic High Jumper

By Ann Malaspina, Illustrated by Eric Velasquez

A biography of the first black woman to win an Olymmpic gold medal, from her childhood in segregated Albany, Georgia, in the 1930s, through her recognition at the 1996 Olympics as one of the hundred best athletes in Olympic history.

Nominated

2014-2015 Crown Award

Reading Level: 0.0

Published by Albert Whitman

ISBN# 9781480492738 (HB)