The Hero Project How We Met Our Greatest Heroes and What We Learned From Them

by Hatch, Robert; Hatch, William

• ISBN13: 9780071449045
• ISBN10: 0071449043
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-09
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

The teen market is booming with 26 million Americans between the ages of 12 and 18 Sure to appeal to readers of such runaway bestsellers as Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens (Fireside, 1998) and Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul (Health Communications, 1997) Features candid, never-before-published interviews with Lance Armstrong, Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter, Florence Griffith Joyner, Madeleine L'Engle, Jackie Chan,Yo Yo Ma, and Pete Seeger

Author Biography

Robert and William Hatch are brothers who, between the ages of eleven and fourteen, conducted the interviews for this book. Robert, now sixteen, is an Eagle Scout and school debater. William, now twenty-two, studies English at the University of Montana.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Sample Letter	p. xvii
Pete Seeger	p. 1
Madeleine L'Engle	p. 17
Florence Griffith-Joyner	p. 31
Jimmy Carter	p. 51
Orson Scott Card	p. 61
Yo-Yo Ma	p. 73
Elouise Cobell	p. 91
Carroll Spinney	p. 105
Desmond Tutu	p. 121
Lance Armstrong and Linda Kelly Armstrong	p. 135
Steve Wozniak	p. 149
Dolores Huerta	p. 165
Jackie Chan	p. 187
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