The Value of Facing a Challenge: The Story of Terry Fox

by Ann Donegan Johnson and Terry Fox

Book Overview

A biography of a young cancer patient with an artificial leg who determined to run 5300 miles across Canada in his own Marathon of Hope in order to raise money for cancer research. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0717281345
• ISBN13: 9780717281343
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Value Communications
• Length: 63 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

My kids love this story

I was 10 when Terry Fox ran his Marathon of Hope. I enjoy reading this book to my kids, and they can relate to this story even though they live far away from Canada and long after Terry Fox died. The story presents Terry's illness in a non-threatening but honest way. The story rightly focuses on his life, and his accomplishments and not on his death. The message about facing a challenge is relayed throughout the book from incidents from Terry's childhood right through to his last hospital stay. Incidentally, the book is good for teaching Canadian geography.