Twist, Tumble, Triumph: The Story of Champion Gymnast Ágnes Keleti

By Deborah Bodin Cohen and Kerry Olitzky
Illustrated by Martina Peluso

Doing gymnastics, Ágnes Keleti feels free―until the day her coach tells her there's a new law in Hungary barring Jewish athletes from the gym. Once Germany sends soldiers into Budapest, they are impossible to ignore and Ágnes hatches a plan. With identity papers from a Christian woman, she goes into hiding in a small farming village. She does housework for a family who support the Nazis, but she never stops dreaming of the day she will be able to compete at the Olympics. 

Hardcover
32 pages
Ages 5-9