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Les épreuves de la vie peuvent nous affaiblir ou nous endurcir. Nous pouvons être comme la carotte qui, dans l'eau bouillante, se ramollit ou comme l'œuf qui devient dur. Mais nous pouvons aussi choisir d'être comme le grain de café, qui infuse et transforme son environnement. Abe est un jeune homme apeuré face aux défis auxquels il fait face à l'école. Un jour, après la classe, son professeur partage avec lui la leçon du grain de café qui va changer sa vie.

A lineman with something to prove. A vendetta against a baseball legend. The rise of a real-life NHL all-star. The luckiest grapefruit in sports history. Open up The Sports Pages, the third volume in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading, and you're in for all of this and more. From fiction to nonfiction, from baseball to mixed martial arts and everything in between, these are 10 stories about the rush of victory and the crush of defeat on and off the field. Compiled by kid-lit all-star Jon Scieszka, Guys Read: The Sports Pages is a thrilling collection of brand-new short stories.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham offers a collection of inspiring words about how to be a good citizen, from Thomas Jefferson and others, and reminds us why our country’s founding principles are still so important today.