Title: In lane three, Alex Archer
First published: 1989
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Swimming, Self-confidence, Olympic Games (17th : 1960 : Rome, Italy), Olympics, New Zealand setting, Juvenile fiction, New Zealand author, Children's fiction, Girls, fiction, Sports, fiction, Self-reliance, fiction
Places: New Zealand
LC classification: PZ7.D8645 In 1989