Looking For Heroes Kathryne Colvin

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The theme of the book, Looking For Heroes: One Boy, One Year, 100 Letters, is finding a path to success despite disabilities. The author, Aidan Colvin, explores how to overcome the challenges presented by his dyslexia diagnosis, in his path success. Clearly, Colvin feels helpless and wants to reach out to people who have the same struggles as he does. Colvin writes to successful people who have dyslexia and asks them how they became successful. At the beginning of his book, Looking For Heroes, Aidan Colvin sets out on a mission to write to 100 famous or successful people with dyslexia. Some of the people Colvin ends up getting responses from are Ms. Bancroft, Dr. Delos Cosgrove, Amanda Thirsk, Diane Swank, Ben Foss, Jay Leno and many more successful people who have struggled with dyslexia. After receiving responses from many of the successful people he wrote to, Colvin discovers that the thing that is holding him back is the same thing that can make him successful too! Dyslexia may be a challenge, but it can also be a gift! …show more content…

In chapter one, Colvin introduces his family to the readers and explains his mission to mail letters to famous dyslexics. As this book goes on, the famous people who Colvin mailed letters to, get back to him and tell him that he can overcome the challenges that dyslexia

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