Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman
- ISBN-10
- 0152020985
- ISBN-13
- 9780152020989
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 44
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-02
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Kathleen Krull
Description
A biography of the African-American woman who overcame crippling polio as a child to become the first woman to win three gold medals in track in a single Olympics.
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Other editions
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- 1996
- 42 pages
- Paperback
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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- 2009-07-10
- - pages
- Paperback
- Paw Prints
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