Author: Alison Leslie Gold
Publisher: Scholastic
Keywords: hero, holocaust, sugihara, chiune, fate, special
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2000-04
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0590395254
ISBN-13: 9780590395250
Award-winning author Alison Gold presents the little-know story of Chiune Sugihara (1900-1986), a Japanese diplomat who risked everything to save the lives of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. Sugihara chose to issure visas to Jews escaping Lithuania, despite the fact that his superiors strictly forbade him to do so. For the first time ever, his unforgettable story, as well as the stories of those he saved, are made accessible to adolescent readers.
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Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Keywords: hero, gilgamesh
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2003-06
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0802852629
ISBN-13: 9780802852625
This is one of the oldest stories in the world, and its about many things that still matter to us today: friendship, fame, courage, happiness. Gilgamesh and Enkidu are friends - best friends. Together they can work wonders, fight monsters, brave earthquakes, travel the world! But waiting in the dark is the one enemy they can never overcome. Retold by award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean, and illustrated with great power by David Parkins, Gilgamesh the Hero is a story that will linger in the imagination long after the book has been put down.
Author: Ron Woods
Publisher: Yearling
Keywords: hero
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-12-09
List price: $5.50
ISBN-10: 0440229782
ISBN-13: 9780440229780
Nobody would believe Dennis Leeper was a hero. He was the kind of kid you hid from when he pedaled his rickety bike down the road. But Jamie couldn’t say no when his father asked him to include Dennis in the raft project. And someone needed to hold the line when Jamie and his cousin Jerry finally got the raft in the river. But they should have known that Dennis couldn’t be trusted to hold onto it. Without paddles and out of people’s sight, the three boys are swept downstream—toward the dams, the steep falls, and three separate destinies. One swims to shore. One is rescued. And one neve
Author: Jordan Paul
Publisher: Hara Publishing Grou
Keywords: hero, own, becoming
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 2003-02-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0971072493
ISBN-13: 9780971072497
BECOMING YOUR OWN HERO illuminates a path available to us all to attain the kind of personal power demonstrated by our most revered and inspirational heroes. Using five extended teaching stories that mirror real-life, BECOMING YOUR OWN HERO not only provides enjoyable reading but makes its information accessible. At the book’s culmination, readers learn how to put the principles they have learned into everyday practice through a simple yet dynamic seven-step process that leads to finding greater fulfillment.
Author: K.M. Peyto
Publisher: Oxford University Pre
Keywords: hero, yourself, prove
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2000-09-07
List price: $10.35
ISBN-10: 0192750887
ISBN-13: 9780192750884
In this tense and thrilling novel about a kidnapping, K. M. Peyton’s narrative gives the reader an illuminating insight into the behaviour of different people under stress - the victim, those who care about him, and those who are inflicting harm on him. This popular novel is by Carnegie Medal winning author, K. M. Peyton, who also wrote the best-selling Flambards series. The book was first published in 1977 and owing to its continuing popularity it is now being reissued in a smaller mass-market paperback format.
Author: Sharon M. Draper
Publisher: Atheneum
Keywords: hero
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-06-23
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 1416907009
ISBN-13: 9781416907008
Suppose someone showed up in YOUR classroom carrying an AK-47. You have a split second: To think.To act.To be a hero.But what is a hero?That question becomes all too real for Arielle, November, Jericho, and their friends. They’ve been through so much: the hazing ritual that left Joshua dead and hearts aching; November finding out that she was pregnant with Josh’s baby. But senior year is going well, and when the fire alarm goes off in English class, everyone assumes that crazy Jack is trying to get out of another quiz. But the alarm was pulled for a very different reason. A potenti
Author: Perry Moore
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH
Keywords: hero
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2009-05-05
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 1423101960
ISBN-13: 9781423101963
The last thing in the world Thom Creed wants is to add to his father’s pain, so he keeps secrets. Like that he has special powers. And that he’s been asked to join the League – the very organization of superheroes that spurned his dad. But the most painful secret of all is one Thom can barely face himself: he’s gay. But becoming a member of the League opens up a new world to Thom. There, he connects with a misfit group of aspiring heroes, including Scarlett, who can control fire but not her anger; Typhoid Larry, who can make anyo
