Jim Thorpe: Olympic Champion by Van Riper, Guernsey, Jr.

Jim Thorpe: Olympic Champion (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780020421405)

Vendor: Guernsey Jr. Van Riper
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Jim Thorpe: Olympic Champion by Van Riper, Guernsey, Jr.

Jim Thorpe: Olympic Champion

$9.99
Jim Thorpe: Olympic Champion by Van Riper, Guernsey, Jr.

Jim Thorpe: Olympic Champion

$9.99
Format: Paperback
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Jim Thorpe: Olympic Champion is Guemsey Van Riper Jr.'s biography of a world-class athlete.

A biography of the Native American known as one of the best all-round athletes in history, for his accomplishments as an Olympic medal winner as well as an outstanding professional football and basebell player.

Author: Guernsey Jr. Van Riper
ISBN-10: 0020421400
ISBN-13: 9780020421405
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Language: English
Published: 10/31/1986
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 7.64h x 5.18w x 0.54d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4
Point Value: 3
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 822 / Jim Thorpe: Olympic Champion
By Guernsey Jr. Van Riper
By Guernsey Jr. Van Riper
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Guernsey Van Riper, Jr. attended DePauw University in 1926. He earned two varsity letters as quarterback on the football team and one letter as a first baseman on the baseball team. After graduating, he worked in advertising then became an editor at Bobbs-Merrill Publishing Company. He turned his love of sports into books, writing biographies of Lou Gehrig and Knute Rockne along with ten other children's books.

Dwight Graydon "Gray" Morrow (1934-2001) was an American illustrator who contributed to many comics and children's books. He was the cocreator of Marvel Comics' the Man-Thing and DC Comics' vigilante El Diablo.

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