Undefeated : Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School football team
Record details
- ISBN: 1596439548 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781596439542 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1596439548 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781596439542 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781596439542 (hardback)
- ISBN: 1596439548 (hardback)
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Physical Description:
280 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
regular print
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Tryout -- First half. The star ; The coach ; The game ; The school ; Alien world ; The team ; Restless disposition ; Carlisle vs. the Big Four ; Charlie ; The Carlisle rut ; Football imagination ; New team ; Carlisle vs. Pennsylvania ; Wild horses ; Haughty Crimson ; Before and after ; Football on trial ; High jump -- Second half. The forward pass ; Carlisle against the world ; Modern football ; Crossroads ; The quarterback ; All in ; Carlisle vs. Harvard ; All-American ; Stockholm ; One more year ; Into the whirlwind ; Football evolution ; Carlisle vs. Army ; Last games ; Brutal business ; Undefeated -- Epilogue: back on top. |
Summary, etc.: | Native American Jim Thorpe became a super athlete and Olympic gold medalist. Indomitable coach Pop Warner was a football mastermind. In 1907 at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, they forged one of the winningest teams in American football history. Called "the team that invented football," they took on the best opponents of their day, defeating much more privileged schools in a series of breathtakingly close calls, genius plays, and bone-crushing hard work. Sheinkin provides a true underdog sports story -- and an unflinching look at the U.S. government's violent persecution of Native Americans and the school that was designed to erase Indian cultures. |
Target Audience Note: | Young Adult. 980 Lexile. 980L Lexile |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader 6.8. Reading Counts! 8.3. |
Awards Note: | Boston Globe/Horn Book Nonfiction Honor, 2017. |
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Genre: | Biographies. |
Available copies
- 32 of 32 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Silas Bronson Library. (Show preferred library)
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- 0 current holds with 32 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | JB THORPE, J SHE (Text) | 34005107072075 | Juvenile Biography | Available | - |
Ansonia Public Library | J. 796.332 SHE (Text) | 34045126308993 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
Beacon Falls Public Library | 796.332 SHE (Text) | 33120000386109 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | TEEN 796.332 SHEINKIN (Text) | 34030137414261 | Teen Nonfiction | Available | - |
Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | Y/NF 796.3320SHE (Text) | 33260000252842 | Teen Nonfiction | Available | - |
Brookfield Library | TEEN 796.3326/SHEINKIN (Text) | 34029138106538 | Teen Nonfiction | Available | - |
Burnham Library - Bridgewater | J/YA 796.332 SHEINKIN (Text) | 36937000602731 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | j796.332 SHEINKIN (Text) | 34000081278822 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | YA 796.332 SHE (Text) | 34014138137071 | Young Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
David M. Hunt Library - Falls Village | j796.332 She (Text) | 33180148103345 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |