Alex
By: Tessa Duder.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Auckland; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Swimming -- Fiction.; Self-confidence -- Fiction.; Olympic Games (17th : 1960 : Rome, Italy) -- Fiction.; New Zealand -- Fiction.
Description: Fifteen-year-old Alex struggles to overcome personal trauma and hardship as she competes with her arch rival for a place on the New Zealand swimming team participating in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.