Novels for grades 9-12:

Conroy, Patrick. THE GREAT SANTINI. Bantam, 1987. The explosive story of Bull Meecham, Marine fighter pilot and absolute ruler of his family.
Courtenay, Bryce. THE POWER OF ONE. Random House, 1989. The story of Peekay's struggle to become a winner during World War II, in pro-Nazi South Africa.
Crutcher, Chris. STOTAN! Bantam Doubleday, 1986. A high school swim team experiences the grueling physical and emotional tests of endurance necessary to call themselves "Stotans," a combination of Stoic and Spartan.
Laird, Christa. SHADOW OF THE WALL. Greenwillow Books, 1990. Based on the real life of a Polish orphanage director who becomes a role model for a Jewish teen who is sent to the home during the Nazi occupation.
Lipsyte, Robert. THE CHEMO KID. Harper Collins, 1993. Science fiction story of a young man who undergoes an experimental form of chemotherapy and develops superhuman abilities.
Llewellyn, Morgan. FINN MACCOOL. New York: Forge, l994.

NON-FICTION FOR STUDENTS:

Branon, Dave. SAFE AT HOME. Chicago: Moody Press. 1992.
Branon, Dave. SLAM DUNK. Chicago: Moody Press. 1994.
Burnham, Jon. THE WINNING PITCH. DeBary, Florida: Longwood Communications.
1995.
Calder, Jenni. HEROES: FROM BYRON TO GUEVARA. London: Hamilton, 1977
Covey, Steven. SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE. New York, New York: Rockefeller Center. 1989.
Dorothy, Norman. THE HERO: MYTH, IMAGE, SYMBOL. New York: World Publishing Co. 1969.
Garrity, John. TIGER WOODS: THE MAKING OF A CHAMPION. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1996.
Glass, Bill. BILL GLASS: EXPECT TO WIN. Waco, Texas: Word Incorporated. 1981 Harris, Gerald. Olympic Heroes. Nashville, Tennessee: Boardman & Holman Publishers. 1996.
Knox, Chuck and Plaschke, Bill. HARD KNOX. Orlando, Florida: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers. 1988.
Lomax, Neil. THIRD AND LONG. Old Tappan, New Jersey: Fleming H. Revell Company. 1986.
Marovich, Pete and Campbell, Darrell. HEIR TO A DREAM. Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Publishers. 1987.
McCartney, Bill. FROM ASHES TO GLORY. Nelson. 1990.
Morris, Ivan. THE NOBILITY OF FAILURE: TRAGIC HEROES IN THE HISTORY OF JAPAN. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, l975.
Norman, Dorothy. THE HERO: MYTH, IMAGE, SYMBOL. New York: World Publishing Co., l969.
Paterno, Joseph V. and Ashell, Bernard. PATERNO BY THE BOOK. New York: Random House Inc. 1989.
Post, Lucy. JOHN F. KENNEDY: AMERICA'S YOUNGEST PRESIDENT. Aladdin Books. 1986
Rosenberg, Bruce. CUSTER AND THE EPIC OF DEFEAT. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press., l974.
Rovin, Jeff. ADVENTURE HEROES: LEGENDARY CHARACTERS FROM ODYSSEUS TO JAMES BOND. New York: Facts on File, l994.
Woods, Earl and McDaniel, Pete; foreword by Tiger Woods. TRAINING A TIGER: A FATHER'S GUIDE TO RAISING A WINNER IN BOTH GOLF AND LIFE. New York, New York: Harper Collins. 1997.
Wecter, Dixon. THE HERO IN AMERICA, A CHRONICLE OF HERO WORSHIP. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. 1941.
White, Reggie and Hill, Teng. REGGIE WHITE: MINISTER OF DEFENSE. Brentwood, Tennessee: Wolgemuth and Hyatt Publishers, Inc. 1991.
White, Reggie. IN THE TRENCHES. Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson Publishers. 1996.
Wilson, Beth P. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. New York: Putnam. 1971.