determination (personality trait)

After learning she cannot take a cake decorating class with her best friend, partly because her parents consider her a quitter, eleven-year-old Eliza tries to prove herself by sticking with a taekwondo class all summer.

A collection of four books by Caldecott Medal winner Virginia Lee Burton which feature characters who become heroes through determination and the ability to adapt to change.

In the Ethiopian mountain village of Lalibela, famous for its churches and honey, a young girl determines to find a way to be a beekeeper despite being told that is something only men can do.

Explains the virtue of determination and describes ways to show it in the home, school, and community.

After hearing the famous nursery rhyme, the Diddle herd decides it is impossible for a cow to jump over the moon, but Cindy Moo is determined to discover how it can be done.

In Ireland in the Middle Ages, young Brother Cuthbert, known for making mistakes and giving up easily, is chosen through a miscommunication to serve as scribe for an illuminated manuscript of the Nativity story, through which the Abbot hopes to make the monastery famous.

After all the other animals unsuccessfully try to reach water deep beneath the ground, Gecko takes a turn. Despite the other animals' leers about his small size, Gecko proves his determination by not giving up.

"Jocelyn loves her ballerina outfit so much she never takes it off. But now she has to wear a scratchy new dress to Aunt Judy's wedding! Her determination is sure to make readers laugh" Cf. Our choice, 2001.

On the first day of summer vacation, Daniel and his older brother Hector take a ride in Hector's custom 1963 Impala low rider.

The Birmingham water authority seizes Owen's and neighboring farms by eminent domain, build a dam, and begin filling the valley with water, but Owen refuses to leave his land. He builds an ark. When it pulls loose from its mooring, it is at the mercy of the wind and water.