Books For Beginners
Andal Jagannathan
STORIES FOR BOYS WHO DARE TO BE DIFFERENT by Quinton Winter Hachette, 2018, 207 pp., 899
November 2018, volume 42, No 11

You can be different, yet lead a meaningful life and live up to your potential. You can be happy and successful too. Be yourself and do your best is what each story from the book seems to say.

Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different has some amazing stories that warm the cockles of your heart! Here’s a small peek into the book…

Daniel Tammet’s amazing grip on numbers and language will impress you and as you read the story you also learn about autism. Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa’s comic books with Muslim superheroes is very popular with children. No surprise there. Kids love comics and superheroes. However, for writing with a difference he’s received death threats. But then, he has also been praised and by none other than President Obama! There’s a story about President Obama too. Then there is Luigi Ciotti who has been standing up to the Italian Mafia by founding a movement called Libera. The Mafia want him dead, but that does not stop him from doing the right thing—helping people. Heard of Lionel Messi? Who hasn’t? But did you know that in childhood he had a disease that needed expensive treatment? Read his story to find out how that has a connection to his football career. The book serves a solid dose of reality too. Not all endings are happy ones. Read the one about the four chaplains for a tale of integrity in the face of certain death.

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