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.

• ISBN: 9780449817445
• Author: Thompson, Laurie Ann
• Illustrator: Qualls, Sean
• Published: 2015 , Schwartz & Wade
• Themes: Disability, Dream, School, teaching
• Descriptors: Africa, Biography - Autobiography- Memoir, Ghana, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9)
• No. of pages: 40