Tells the stories of twenty-three heroic people whose actions have touched and inspired the lives of others. Includes Mother Teresa, Thomas Edison, Marie Curie, Louis Pasteur, and many more.

Test flight drama / Charles Lindbergh -- Sister to the poor / Chris Reilly Giff -- Rescue on the Eiger / Chris Bonington -- "The brilliant Iola" / Dorothy Sterling -- Struck by an iceberg / Archibald Gracie -- The small woman / Alan Burgess -- The letter "a" / Christy Brown -- The struggle is my life / S.R. "Mac" Maharaj -- Children of the siege / Pauline Cutting -- A testament of hope / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Woman in the mists / Farley Mowat -- Escape from Colditz / P.R. Reid -- "Addled youth" / Ronald W. Clark -- Come hell or high water / Clare Francis -- Antarctic Christmas / Robert F. Scott -- The mysterious rays / Angela Bull -- Adventure in the Crimea / Mary Seacole -- First on the moon / Gene Farmer & Dora Jane Hambling -- A family in hiding / Anne Frank -- Forgotten / Peggy Say & Peter Knobler -- Rescue mission / Anthony Masters -- A medical revolution / Madeleine P. Grant.