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The book recounts the Broncos’ final season with Elway, ending with their Super Bowl XXXIII victory. It pairs the season account with photographs and narrative text.

This is an adventure about a grandson’s attempt to honour his grandfather while climbing Kilimanjaro. The journey challenges DJ’s belief that talent and determination will make everything easy.

A biography of a determined athlete, the book traces Babe Didrikson Zaharias’s rise in basketball, Olympic competition and golf, alongside personal challenges including poverty, prejudice and cancer.

A camp story centred on an outsider’s struggle to belong, with music and a strand of mystery alongside the summer activities.

This is a real athlete’s career story, with milestones in international football and the Olympics. It may suit readers interested in sport or in learning about one player’s professional journey.

A compact life story of a basketball player, with attention to Durant’s sporting achievements and brief mention of acting and helping others.

A life story centred on Ali’s path from learning boxing to championship success, told with paintings as well as text.

Consider it for a child curious about inventions or the history behind familiar attractions; its biographical focus offers a person-centred entry into engineering.

A historically grounded adventure that also asks who receives credit for exploration and what costs expeditions impose on the people they encounter.

Thorpe’s athletic achievements are set alongside a difficult early life, including family tragedy and time at Native American boarding schools. His path towards sport includes repeated attempts to leave school.

This is an outdoor adventure centred on Raffi's pride in being able to go camping, with puffins, exploration and unexpected discoveries in the mix.

This is a story about academic ambition under strain, with tutoring and a possible romance complicating Ariel’s already crowded schedule.

This is a story of friendship under strain, told through three girls’ distinct summer challenges: family expectations, an aspiration tied to thinness, and a family coping with bereavement and divorce.

The book offers a life-and-business biography, covering Monaghan’s early experiences and later work in pizza delivery. Its timeline and glossary may help readers keep track of people, events and terms.

A life story paired with reference-style material: Bell’s teaching, experiments and inventions sit alongside a glossary, chronology and glimpses of daily life in the period.

Expect a sports biography that gives Christian faith a prominent place, rather than a career account focused only on hockey achievements.

This pairs a high-achieving student’s school ambitions with mythic adventure, placing a modern teen and the Monkey King in the same story.

This is a career-focused biography, moving between Olympic milestones and Phelps’s early experiences. Its emphasis is on persistence and achievement rather than a broad account of his life.

A lively, fact-rich introduction to women’s soccer, pairing match and player coverage with statistics and visual features. Its focus is on the sport’s history and the stories of its players.

A warm, humorous friendship adventure follows Humphrey and Og through camp activities, cabin rivalry and unsettling surprises. It offers a small-animal viewpoint on nervousness, helping friends and adapting to unfamiliar experiences.

Expect a seasonal picture-book story about two mice and an Easter basket contest.

A real-life sports memoir about football skill, recognition and the changing circumstances that followed public attention. Its distinctive angle is a girl succeeding in a boys’ league while navigating visibility beyond the field.

This is a competitive ensemble story about ambition, shifting loyalties and relationships under pressure, set within an academy where continued membership can be withdrawn at any time.

A lively competition story for readers who enjoy solving problems alongside a determined contestant. Its emotional engine is Gil’s wish to alter his family’s circumstances, while the games test knowledge, persistence, judgement and relationships.

This is a sports-centred story about talent, friendship, family change and grief. Selena’s return to softball offers a hopeful direction, while the death in her family gives the story emotional weight.

A portrait of Chanel’s rise in fashion sits alongside discussion of poverty, prejudice, self-invention and wartime controversy. The book offers achievements and faults together rather than presenting an uncomplicated style icon.

This is a teen coming-of-age story about a perfectionist girl pursuing a prom date while coping with parental restrictions, social awkwardness, appearance worries, friendship and questions about faith.

A concise life story about moving from poverty into broadcasting, talk-show success and independent production, with attention to Winfrey's public influence and the admiration and criticism surrounding it.

A focused sports profile of Michelle Kwan, linking competition, injury and disappointment with continued achievement. It offers a compact account of an athlete’s setbacks and successes, accompanied by high-action photographs.

A historical account of four African American women mathematicians whose work contributed to aircraft and spacecraft research, while explaining segregation, wartime aviation, NASA’s origins and the space race.

A horse-centred mystery set around training and a major club competition, with friendship and teamwork alongside sabotage and an injured rider.

A lively introduction to a deaf baseball player whose practical solution to communication barriers became part of the sport. It combines biography, baseball history and bright illustrations celebrating persistence and ingenuity.

A visually presented introduction to Hispanic and Latino American figures whose work spans culture, public life, science, sport and the arts. It offers short life sketches rather than one continuous narrative.

A direct, encouraging guide for young men, combining personal experience with advice about identity, education, friendships, family, money and sexual behaviour. Its strongest offering is a supportive mentor voice addressing difficult social pressures.

A lively introduction to Franklin’s changing roles, from printer and experimenter to civic organiser and statesman. It presents a broad historical journey supported by period images and reference material, with perseverance and inventive thinking prominent in the portrait.

Choose this for a short introduction to Gabriela Mistral, especially if the child enjoys poetry, languages, imaginative pictures or stories about how childhood interests can develop into creative and educational work.

This is a story about rebuilding sisterhood after family separation. Its magical identity swap creates comic complications while Jamie and Siri confront damaged relationships, changing ambitions and the challenge of becoming themselves.

This offers an accessible introduction to a pioneering doctor and inventor, combining a poetic life story with scientific and historical detail. Its strongest appeal is the connection between personal ambition, medical discovery and wider questions of equality.

A suspenseful mystery about a teenager whose recurring nightmare appears linked to a summer camp, a dead woman and a murderer. The story emphasises investigation, friendship, danger and solving clues.

A warm football adventure uses Pickles’s humorous viewpoint to explore a family trying to stay together while money problems and housing insecurity affect everyday life.

A visually led introduction to the International Space Station, combining engineering, astronaut routines and scientific research. Its distinctive angle is the station as a shared international achievement, rather than space exploration presented only as individual adventure.

A concise, focused account of Walter Tull’s life, linking football achievement with racism, military service and the search for respect. Its accessible presentation may help readers encounter a significant historical figure without a lengthy or highly demanding text.

Choose this for a visually led introduction to Leonardo’s many fields: art, invention, music, mathematics and observation. It offers breadth, historical context and striking machines rather than a narrowly focused account.

This is an encouraging, practical exploration of how practice, perseverance, support and learning from mistakes may help people develop skills. Its central message is hopeful, though the emphasis on becoming “awesome” can make achievement feel like the main measure of success.

A lively introduction to women’s contributions across history and different fields, presented through colourful illustrations, short profiles, facts and quotations. Its page-by-page structure supports dipping in, revisiting individual figures and noticing links between personal achievement and wider social change.