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Soul surfer : a true story of faith, family, and fighting to get back on the board
- Title
- Soul surfer : a true story of faith, family, and fighting to get back on the board / Bethany Hamilton with Sheryl Berk and Rick Bundschuh.
- Author
- Hamilton, Bethany
- Publication
- New York, NY : Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. : MTV Books, 2006.
- ©2004
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- Description
- xvii, 222 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 20 cm
- Summary
- The teenage surfer who lost her arm in a shark attack in 2003 describes how she has coped with this life-altering event with the help of her faith, the changes in her life, and her return to the sport she loves. In this moving personal account of faith and fortitude, internationally ranked surfer Bethany Hamilton tells how she survived a shark attack that cost her arm--but not her spirit. They say Bethany Hamilton has saltwater in her veins. How else could one explain the passion that drives her to surf? How else could one explain that nothing--not even the loss of her arm--could come between her and the waves? That Halloween morning in Kauai, Hawaii, Bethany responded to the shark's stealth attack with the calm of a girl with God on her side. Pushing pain and panic aside, she began to paddle with one arm, focusing on a single thought: "Get to the beach...." And when the first thing Bethany wanted to know after surgery was "When can I surf again?" it became clear that her spirit and determination were part of a greater story--a tale of courage and faith that this soft-spoken girl would come to share with the world. Soul Surfer is a moving account of Bethany's life as a young surfer, her recovery after the attack, the adjustments she's made to her unique surfing style, her unprecedented bid for a top showing in the World Surfing Championships, and, most fundamentally, her belief in God. It is a story of girl power and spiritual grit that shows the body is no more essential to surfing--perhaps even less so--than the soul.
- Subject
- Hamilton, Bethany > Juvenile literature
- Hamilton, Bethany
- Surfing > Wounds and injuries > Hawaii > Kauai > Juvenile literature
- Shark attacks > Hawaii > Kauai > Juvenile literature
- Amputees > Rehabilitation > Juvenile literature
- Surfing > Biography
- JUVENILE NONFICTION > Biography & Autobiography > Sports & Recreation
- JUVENILE NONFICTION > Media Tie-In
- Surfing
- Amputees > Rehabilitation
- Shark attacks
- Surfers
- People with disabilities
- Handicapped
- Hawaii > Kauai
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Juvenile works.
- Contents
- Foreword -- Halloween morning -- Roots -- Serious competitor -- Mostly normal life -- Attack -- Dark hours -- Surgery -- Road back -- Why I do it -- Keeping the faith -- Outpouring of aloha -- On being kind of famous -- Back in the waves -- Aftermath -- Part of a plan -- Endnote.
- ISBN
- 1416503463
- 9781416503460
- 0329888528
- 9780329888527
- OCLC
- ocm70111058
- 70111058
- SCSB-1638337
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library