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Publisher
Distributed by Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Photographic chronicle of the Olympics, presenting highlights of each of the summer and winter games, from the first Olympiad in Athens in 1896, through the Lillehammer games of 1994, with a look at what's in store for the 1996 Atlanta event.
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explores the development of the modern Olympic games from their reintroduction by Baron Pierre de Coubertin in 1896, who took part, and how the games evolved throughout the twentieth century.
8) Typhoon
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Language
English
Description
Joe Lennox, an operative for MI6 is back in China after losing both his girlfriend and a prominent defector who disappeared from a safe house ten years earlier, in order to thwart the CIA's plot to use an Islamic group to destabilize China during the 2008 Olympics.
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Photographs and text describe key moments from the history of the Olympic Games, providing a brief historic overview of the games, and sharing a time line of Olympic events from 1896 to 2012.
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the Olympic Games, chronicling the history of the games from antiquity through the Beijing games in 2008, and describing athletic accomplishments, controversies, and plans for the 2012 games in London.
12) Private games
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic games in London, but when a high-ranking member of the games' organizing committee and his mistress are killed just hours before the opening ceremony, the killer must be identified before others meet the same fate.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 16
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games and are surprised to find what girls of the time were not allowed to do.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A biography of the first black woman to win an Olympic 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.
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