An introduction to the life and career of professional baseball player Derek Jeter that discusses his childhood, recruitment by the New York Yankees, leadership abilities, and other related topics.
A career biography of Steve Nash, a point guard for the Phoenix Suns basketball team, discussing his youth in Canada, his professional career, and his charity work.
Aisling Juanjuan Shen, the daughter of illiterate peasant parents in a poor rice-farming hamlet in China, recounts how she overcame her poverty stricken beginnings and the gender biases of the Chinese government and business world to find success and happiness in modern China.
Mitchell Levitz and Jason Kingsley share their innermost thoughts, feelings, hopes and dreams, their lifelong friendship--and their experiences of growing up with Down syndrome.
The author reflects on her fourteen-year battle with bulimia and anorexia, discussing how the eating disorders have affected her life from childhood through the present day.
