Title: Trudy's big swim
Description: On the morning of August 6, 1926, Gertrude Ederle stood in her bathing suit on the beach at Cape Gris-Nez, France, and faced the churning waves of the English Channel. Twenty-one miles across the perilous waterway, the English coastline beckoned.
Subjects: Women swimmers, Swimmers, Biography, Women, Swimming, Swimming, juvenile literature, Women, united states, biography, Women, biography, juvenile literature, Women athletes
People: Gertrude Ederle (1906-2003)