Books with title The Bear Who Never Gave up

TravisFlores wrote the 'Spider Who Never Gave Up' when he was 8 years old.This children's story is about a spider, named Sparkey, who could notspin a web. With some encouragement fromhis mom he never gave up trying and finally he spins a perfect web.Travis wrote this story as asimilarity to his own life and his battle with Cystic Fibrosis.WhenTravis started being admitted to the hospital, he met other children that weresick, and he wanted to help encourage them to never give up. Thisinspired him to write this story.This book is one of Travis' waysto reach out with his message of encouragement to other people to never give up on what they want to do in life or ontheir dreams no matter how bad things get.

This book tells the dramatic events in the lives of six individuals who overcame great difficulties to become American heroes who continue to inspire us today.Susan Anthony was arrested for voting and found guilty by a directed verdict written before the trial began, but she continued to work to gain for women the right to vote.George W. Carver born as a slave, kidnapped as an infant, overcame life long hardships to become a world-class botanist who changed the way of life for the poor Southern farmer.Thomas A. Edison was called a failure when thousands of his experiments were unsuccessful. He refused to give up and is now recognized as the world's greatest inventor.Abraham Lincoln endured many personal disappointments but preserved the Union during the Civil War and proved to the world that democracy works.Sequoyah worked entirely alone, rejected even by his own family but developed an alphabet so his Cherokee nation could learn to read and write. Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and risk her life using the Underground Railroad to escort more than 300 Southern slaves to freedom in the North.