The Winter Games are just around the corner! Prepare yourself (and the young readers in your life) for the sixteen-day event by brushing up on Olympic history and inspiring personal stories of award-winning athletes.
Dara Torres captured the hearts and minds of Americans of all ages when she launched her Olympic comeback as a new mother at the age of forty-one—years after she had retired from competitive swimming and eight years since her last Olympics. Her memoir is about pursuing your dreams.
Listen to an excerpt Age Is Just a Number
The improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really means.
Listen to an excerpt The Boys in the Boat
In Relentless Spirit, Missy Franklin and her parents, D.A. and Dick Franklin, share the story of how Missy became the athlete she is today, a six-time Olympic medalist, five of them gold.
Listen to an excerpt Relentless Spirit
Bobsledding was the must-see event of the 1932 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, the first Winter Games on American soil. In the thick of the Great Depression, the nation was gripped by the story of these four American bobsledders as they raced for gold.
Listen to an excerpt Speed Kings
The #1 New York Times bestseller about nine teenage Olympic rowers of the Greatest Generation, freshly adapted for the next generation.
Listen to an excerpt The Boys in the Boat
The Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie back to ancient Greece, but no girls are allowed at the Games. Will Annie find a way in?
Listen to an excerpt Hour of the Olympics
At the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, track-and-field star Jesse Owens ran to international glory by winning four gold medals. But his life is much more than a sports story.
Listen to an excerpt Who Was Jesse Owens?