Ron Suskind
Author
Publisher
Kingswell
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Tells the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who, unable to speak for years, memorized dozens of Disney movies and turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship and brotherhood.
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The hidden history of Wall Street and the White House comes down to a single, powerful concept: confidence. Both centers of power, tapping brazen innovations over the past three decades, learned how to manufacture it. Wall Street found that straying from long-standing principles opened a path to stunning profits. Obama's determination to reverse that trend was essential to his ascendance, especially when Wall Street collapsed and the two candidates
...Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
The inspiring, true coming-of-age story of a ferociously determined young man who, armed only with his intellect and his willpower, fights his way out of despair.
In 1993, Cedric Jennings was a bright and ferociously determined honor student at Ballou, a high school in one of Washington D.C.’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where the dropout rate was well into double digits and just 80 students out of more than 1,350 boasted an average...
In 1993, Cedric Jennings was a bright and ferociously determined honor student at Ballou, a high school in one of Washington D.C.’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where the dropout rate was well into double digits and just 80 students out of more than 1,350 boasted an average...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Ron Suskind describes how his high-functioning autistic son, Owen, learned to cope with his handicap from a young age by memorizing the dialogue of Disney movies and having his family play the roles of the animated characters.