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These texts include explorers, mountain climbers and bike riders as well as people who have overcome the challenge of disabilities.

AuthorTitleComment
Willmot, EricPemulwuy, the rainbow warriorAmazing story of the strength of early Australian Aboriginal people in the face of English invaders.
Hornimann, JoanneMahaliaTeenage boy as a single parent
Korman, GordonEverestMountain Climbers
Armstrong, LanceIt's not about the bikeConquering cancer and still riding at an elite level.
Terry FoxCancer amputee who ran 3000 miles across Canada.
Klein, RobinCame back to show you I could flyPregnancy and drug addiction don't mix well.
Mistry, RohintonFine balanceSurvival in India, riddled with poverty and teeming with beggars 
Lui, AimeeFlash houseJoanna Shaw is working in a non-profit agency in New Delhi. girls from the streets and try to rebuild their shattered lives.
Minter, JInsidersLives of teenage boys
Brown, ChristyMy left footOvercoming poverty and physical disability in poverty stricken Ireland
Marshall, AlanI can jump puddlesAustralian youth coming to terms with the after effects of polio
Collins, AlanJoshua

A Promised Land is a trilogy set in Australia and Israel. The story takes place over a 35 year period beginning in the depression in Australia and ending at the time of the Six Days War in Israel.

Jenkins, SallyEvery Second CountsThis book is the sequel to the best selling book in 2005 "It's not about the bike", this book is about the the recovery of Lance Armstrong from three different cancers in the lung, brain and abdominal. He then came back to win five tour de france five time consecutavly all with recored times.


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