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What are the Summer Olympics? / by Gail Herman ; illustrated by Stephen Marchesi.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House, March 22, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 108 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations, map 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • Juvenile
ISBN:
  • 9780448488349
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 796.48 23
LOC classification:
  • GV721.53 .H46 2016
Contents:
What are the Summer Olympics? -- The ancient Games, 776 BC-AD 393 -- The modern Games begin: late 1800s -- The Olympics grow: the early 1900s -- New Games: news stars, the 1920s -- Politics enter the Games: the 1930s -- After the war: late 1940s and 1950s -- Time for change: the 1960s -- Munich and Montreal: the 1970s -- Dives and drugs: the 1980s -- Dreams lost and found: the 1990s -- A new century: the 2000s -- At the close -- Movies about the Olympics -- Timelines.
Summary: An overview of the Summer Olympics from Grecian times through 2012.
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Books Idaho Springs Public Library JNF J 796.4 HER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 30404100309192

New kids book 2024 summer.

Includes bibliographical references (page 108).

Includes filmography.

What are the Summer Olympics? -- The ancient Games, 776 BC-AD 393 -- The modern Games begin: late 1800s -- The Olympics grow: the early 1900s -- New Games: news stars, the 1920s -- Politics enter the Games: the 1930s -- After the war: late 1940s and 1950s -- Time for change: the 1960s -- Munich and Montreal: the 1970s -- Dives and drugs: the 1980s -- Dreams lost and found: the 1990s -- A new century: the 2000s -- At the close -- Movies about the Olympics -- Timelines.

An overview of the Summer Olympics from Grecian times through 2012.

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