Path Lit by Lightning : The Life of Jim Thorpe (PB) Grade Six Mona Hanna-Attisha & Mari Copeny

Mona Hanna-Attisha & Mari Copeny

Parents and Elders saw a need for a book about Aboriginal basketball

Grandpa's missing little sister was part of the 60s Scoop and residential school and like many Indigenous children the government had arranged for her adoption by strangers

his teenage and later years discuss his pain of loss

he has a foot in both cultures

Path Lit by Lightning : The Life of Jim Thorpe (PB) Grade Six Mona Hanna-Attisha & Mari CopenyDavid Maraniss has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism. Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. He won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, was an All American football player at the Carlisle Indian School, the star of the first class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and played major league baseball for John McGraws New York Giants. Even in a golden age of sports