Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indians Football Team leadership and Jane Yolen

and Jane Yolen

combines elements of storytelling

imagination and intergenerational connection that perfectly captures the experience of a young child's wonder as he is introduced to places and stories that hold meaning for his family

poetry is rooted in the more than five hundred living indigenous nations

Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indians Football Team leadership and Jane YolenUndefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team is an astonishing underdog sports story and more. It's an unflinching look at the U. S. government's violent persecution of Native Americans and the school that was designed to erase Indian cultures. Expertly told by three time National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin, it's the story of a group of young men who came together at that school, the overwhelming obstacles they faced