Name: The three-year swim club
ISBN: 9781455523443

Julie Checkoway

The inspirational story of a group of impoverished children who were transformed into champion swimmers. In 1937 an ordinary grammar school teacher on the island of Maui took a group of underprivileged children, mostly of Japanese ancestry, and in three short years transformed them into Olympic champions.

the untold story of Maui's Sugar Ditch kids and their quest for Olympic glory

The three-year swim club

Briar's Reviews

As a swimmer I expected to like this novel, but sadly I found it lacking.

The story itself is incredibly amazing, but it lacked any form of excitement. It seemed to be more of an essay than a story about how the Three-Year Swim Club came to being and how they entered a quest to get to the Olympics.

The author did a great job researching and presenting this novel, but it was not what I expected at all. Despite the incredible writing and fantastic story, I just felt like it was lacking a good 'umph' to the story to make anybody want to pick it up and read it.

I expected a lot of explanation into swimming, but sadly there wasn't much of that either. With the lack of exciting plot movement and swimming descriptions, I just felt let down.

I love non-fiction, and as a non-fiction novel it was fantastic, but it was just not what I expected off of the back cover.

Two out of five stars.

I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads.

The three-year swim club the untold story of Maui's Sugar Ditch kids and their quest for Olympic glory

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