Jimmy the Greatest!


By Jairo Buitrago

Groundwood Books

Copyright © 2012 Jairo Buitrago
All right reserved.

ISBN: 9781554981786

Don Apolinar gave him a cardboard box filled with books and newspaper clippings. There was also a note saying,“Muhammad Ali’s bike was stolen when he was little.”
But, who was Muhammed Ali?
Jimmy read and re-read the books and clippings. He read as he never had before using the glasses that he had never worn . . .
His mother was surprised to see Jimmy reading and shadow-boxing at the same time.

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