Sakamoto's Swim Club by Julie Abery

When the children of workers on a 1930s Maui sugar plantation were chased away from playing in the nearby irrigation ditches, local science teacher Soichi Sakamoto had an idea. He offered to take responsibility for the children – and then he began training them how to swim. Could Maui's ditch swimmers win Olympic gold?

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