My Sister Hali / Movie Companion Book

Download or read book My Sister Hali / Movie Companion Book written by Paul SHERIFF and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Sister, Hali tells the story of Hali Sheriff, an internationally acclaimed American athlete and frontrunner for the 1968 Olympic Women's Gymnastics Team, whose promising life ended much too soon. It was early summer of 1966 when 14 year old gymnastics superstar Hali Sheriff was killed in a plane crash. All six passengers on board the small aircraft died, including Hali's mother and coach, Virginia, and father, Harold Sheriff. Surviving brothers, Paul (10) and John (16), were not on the plane. This moving, character driven story of a gifted star gymnast, and the team that cherished her, is told through the resilient eyes of her younger brother, Paul Sheriff. After remaining silent for nearly 50 years, Paul opens up for the first time to revisit the magnitude of Hali's career, the shock of her untimely death, the traumatic loss of both his parents and its everlasting impact on their small, midwestern community of Blue Mound, Illinois.