Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills
Billy Mills, Donna Janell Bowman
In this first-person picture-book account, Billy Mills begins at the 10,000-meter starting line at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics before the narrative moves back across his life. An Oglala Lakota child raised on the Pine Ridge Reservation, he finds comfort in running after his mother’s death and amid racist bullying. He later attends Haskell Institute and the University of Kansas, enters the Marines, and receives a borderline-diabetes diagnosis.
This book appears on 3 reading lists across 1 edition from 3 organizations.
