Full name: Touch the Sky: Alice Coachman, Olympic High Jumper

Author: Ann Malaspina Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Children, Picture books, Biographies, Poetry, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780807580356 080758035X

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. Includes bibliographical references. Similar books: Before She Was Harriet by Lesa Cline-Ransome Coretta Scott by Ntozake Shange 28 Days by Charles R. Smith Jr. Josephine by Patricia Hruby Powell Schomburg by Carole Boston Weatherford Emma's Poem by Linda Glaser Twelve Rounds to Glory by Charles R. Smith Jr. Our Abe Lincoln by Jim Aylesworth Phillis's Big Test by Catherine Clinton Wilma Unlimited by Kathleen Krull Jesse Owens by Carole Boston Weatherford Moses by Carole Boston Weatherford Harriet and the Promised Land by Jacob Lawrence The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander Freedom in Congo Square by Carole Boston Weatherford A River of Words by Jen Bryant Enormous Smallness by Matthew Burgess This Is the Dream by Diane Z. Shore Papa Is a Poet by Natalie S. Bober The Children's Book of Heroes by William J. Bennett