Undefeated : Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School football team / Steve Sheinkin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2017Copyright date: Edition: First editionDescription: 280 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781596439542
  • 1596439548
  • 9780605963221
  • 0605963223
Other title:
  • Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School football team
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Undefeated.DDC classification:
  • 796.332/630974843 23
LOC classification:
  • GV958.U33 S54 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Awards:
  • Boston Globe/Horn Book Nonfiction Honor, 2017.
  • Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth, 2017
  • Horn Book Fanfare List, 2017
Summary: 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.
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Books Books Odessa College Young Adult YA NF 796.33 UNDEF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 51994001725300

Young Adult.

980 Lexile.

Accelerated Reader 6.8.

Reading Counts! 8.3.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

980L Lexile.

Boston Globe/Horn Book Nonfiction Honor, 2017.

Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth, 2017

Horn Book Fanfare List, 2017

Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG+ 6.8 9.0 186921.

Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 6.8 9.0 186921.

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