True Self Fiction

Forget the gold medals, the championships, and the undefeated seasons. When all-star athletes were growing up, they had regular-kid problems just like you. Baseball legend Babe Ruth was such a troublemaker that his family sent him to reform school. Race-car champion Danica Patrick fended off bullies who told her “girls can’t drive”. And football superstar Peyton Manning was forced to dance the tango in his school play.

True has a singular path: to be the greatest soccer player of her generation. And she will do whatever it takes to be the top girl on the field. True has to stay focused because her family is crumbling. With the loss of her mother, True is forced to take care of her autistic younger sister while her grieving father wastes his time gambling. And high school isn’t much better. While True’s teammates are getting taller and growing up, she’s hardening around the edges, at a loss for what it means to be a typical teen girl. But when she’s in the game, the anxieties of family and fitting in just fade away.

The sequel to The Revealers, this realistic young adult novel deals with a timely and urgent issue for adolescents and their schools - cyberbullying. The suspenseful and engaging story is the first to deal with the full-range of behaviors that fall under the umbrella of cyberbullying, using an expanded cast of characters to portray the rumor-spreading politics of an entire middle school.

In Dr Stephanie Dowrick’s most loved bestseller, she reconsiders the six great qualities that she herself depended upon in a time of great need. The timeless qualities of courage, fidelity, restraint, generosity, tolerance and forgiveness become new here. As Stephanie Dowrick shows in this intimate and inspiring book, these are the qualities that bring real hope even at times of confusion or grief, restoring a vital sense of compassion and connection.

Based on a true story, Fighting Chance is written by Alicia Doyle, an award-winning journalist who discovered boxing at age 28 in the late 1990s when she went on assignment at a boxing gym for at-risk youth called Kid Gloves. For two years, she simultaneously worked as a newspaper reporter while training and competing as a boxer, making her one of only a few hundred women in America who infiltrated this male-dominated sport.

Every activist started out as a kid‚ and in some cases, they were kids when their activism began! But even the world's greatest champions of civil liberties had relatable interests and problems‚ often in the middle of extraordinary circumstances. Martin Luther King, Jr., loved fashion and argued with his dad about whether or not dancing was a sin. Harvey Milk had a passion for listening to opera music in different languages. Dolores Huerta was once wrongly accused of plagiarizing in school.

Words for believing in yourself are the stars of this sweet book that empowers children of all abilities and backgrounds to not only believe in themselves but to be strong and resilient in the pursuit of their dreams. A teacher, a scientist or an activist—could this be you? Through lyrical rhymes, This Could Be You says yes, it very well could be.