Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman

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This award-winning true story of Black Olympic runner Wilma Rudolph, who overcame childhood polio and eventually went on to win three gold medals, is illustrated by Caldecott medal–winning artist David Diaz.

Before Wilma Rudolph was five years old, polio had paralyzed her left leg. Everyone said she would never walk again. But Wilma refused to believe it. Not only would she walk again, she vowed, she'd run. And she did run—all the way to the Olympics, where she became the first American woman to earn three gold medals in a single Olympiad. This dramatic and inspiring true story is illustrated in bold watercolor and acrylic paintings.
 

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Product # 49947-G
Author Krull, Kathleen
Interest Level 2-5
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Guided Reading Level P
Lexile Level AD 850
Publisher Houghton Mifflin
Multicultural African American