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Lis Hartel became paralyzed after contracting polio in 1944. Her dreams of riding horses and competing in the sport of dressage were shattered. After months in the hospital, doctors told her she'd never ride again. Lis tried anyway. But how do you stay on a horse without using your legs? How do you give the subtle cues needed in dressage with limited mobility? With hard work--and an unlikely horse named Jubilee! After years of training together and creating a new way of communicating, Lis and Jubilee danced into the competition ring--and eventually all the way to the Olympics. Lis Hartel was the first woman with a disability ever to win an Olympic medal and the first woman to stand equally beside men on the Olympic winners' podium in any sport.

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KT Johnston writes historical narrative nonfiction. She found history a boring subject in school--but now it's the passion of her writing. She earned a degree in biology and conducted animal-behavior studies before switching to a corporate career. After raising two children and several litters of curly-coated retrievers, she began writing, spotlighting special animals who affected the lives of everyday people. She and her husband live in Minneapolis. Piper Goodeve is an Audie Award-winning narrator who has given her voice to almost two hundred titles. When not narrating, she enjoys acting and has appeared Off-Broadway and at regional theaters across the country. Having received her bachelor's degree from New York University, she went on to acquire her master's degree in acting from Brown University. She happily splits her time between Brooklyn and Vermont. Anabella Ortiz is an experienced illustrator and designer based in upstate South Carolina. She studied illustration in Savannah, Georgia, and turned that passion into a career. She enjoys collaborating with authors to bring their stories to life through illustrations that captivate and inspire. When she's not creating, she can be found at a concert, enjoying the outdoors, or petting her two cats.

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