Without a silver spoon

By Eddie Iroh

Subjects: personal development, resilience, inspiration, self-help, overcoming adversity, success, hustle, poverty, grind, Memoir, motivation, determination

Description: Winner of the International Board on Books for Young People, Certificate of Honour, this story for young people teaches the lesson that honesty is the best policy. Ure comes from a poor but honest family, and works as a houseboy to pay his own school fees. Towards the end of his primary school days he is accused of stealing money. He is saved by the well-placed total trust of his parents and his teacher.