The Race of the Century: The Battle to Break the Four-Minute Mile (Scholastic Focus)

Highly acclaimed author Neal Bascomb brings his peerless research and fast-paced narrative style to a young adult adaptation of one of his most successful adult books of all time, The Perfect Mile , a…

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