For Tony Hawk, it wasn’t enough to skate for two decades, to invent over eighty tricks. It wasn’t enough to knock himself unconscious more than ten times, fracture ribs, break his elbow, knock out his teeth twice, compress the vertebrae in his back, pop his bursa sack, get more than fifty stitches laced into his […]
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Teen Booklist Category: Biography
Soul Surfer
A true story: Bethany Hamilton, a teenage surfer, lost her arm in a shark attack off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii. Not even the loss of her arm keeps her from returning to surfing, the sport she loves.
Anne Frank : the diary of a young girl
A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps. Grades 8 and up.