TY - GEN AU - Thompson, Laurie Ann AU - Qualls, Sean TI - Emmanuel's dream : the true story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah SN - 9780449817445 U1 - 92 PY - 2015/// CY - New York, NY PB - Schwartz & Wave Books N2 - Born in Ghana, West Africa, with one deformed leg, he was dismissed by most people--but not by his mother, who taught him to reach for his dreams. As a boy, Emmanuel hopped to school more than two miles each way, learned to play soccer, left home at age thirteen to provide for his family, and, eventually, became a cyclist. He rode an astonishing four hundred miles across Ghana in 2001, spreading his powerful message: disability is not inability. Today, Emmanuel continues to work on behalf of the disabled UR - 000028/0000288b.jpg ER -