Just don't fall : a hilariously true story of childhood, cancer, amputation, romantic yearning, truth, and Olympic greatness / Josh Sundquist.
By: Sundquist, Josh
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TextPublisher: New York : Penguin, c2010General Notes: Hardcover edition has different subtitle: How I grew up, conquered illness, and made it down the mountain.Description: 322 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780143118787 (pbk.); 0143118781.Subject(s): Sundquist, Josh | Tumors in children -- Patients -- United States -- Biography | Ewing's sarcoma -- Patients -- United States -- BiographyDDC classification: 618.92/9940092 | B Summary: Josh Sundquist was nine-year-old when he was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma, a virulent cancer that eventually claimed his left leg. His journey takes him from his small southern town--with his father, an aspiring pastor questioning his faith, and his mother, a rigidly conservative homeschool teacher--through hospitals, to high school, and then to the mountains, where Josh learns to ski. Josh's world bursts wide open and he finds within him the drive to become a champion skier, with his eyes on the prize--the 2006 Paralympics in Turin, Italy.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 618.92994 Su726 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003490869 |
Hardcover edition has different subtitle: How I grew up, conquered illness, and made it down the mountain.
Josh Sundquist was nine-year-old when he was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma, a virulent cancer that eventually claimed his left leg. His journey takes him from his small southern town--with his father, an aspiring pastor questioning his faith, and his mother, a rigidly conservative homeschool teacher--through hospitals, to high school, and then to the mountains, where Josh learns to ski. Josh's world bursts wide open and he finds within him the drive to become a champion skier, with his eyes on the prize--the 2006 Paralympics in Turin, Italy.
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