Book excerpt: Popular Olympic athletes come to life in Big Buddy Olympic Biographies! Each book examines a sports star's background, challenges overcome along the path to the podium, and plans for the future. Short sentences, engaging paragraphs, oversized photographs, and colorful graphics will encourage reluctant readers as they are inspired by these awesome athletes! Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards.Big Buddy Books is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.