申请美国大学，了解美国教育和医疗，美国种族问题，这本书里面都有。最关键是，这本书对大人和孩子都很励志。小宝上英文课正用这本书，而我上课需要读一本传记。于是我就乖乖地读了这本书，并写了下面的作业。

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Carson, Ben.
Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996

Dr. Ben Carson is a well known neurosurgeon who did a pioneered surgery that separated joined twins for the first time in the whole world in 1987.  In his autobiography/biography, he talked about how he grew up from a poor black child into a world- famous medical doctor. In his personal and career stories, he recalled his struggling in his school life (high school and college) and in his career life when he worked as a neurosurgeon in John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. As a conclusion of this book, Dr. Carson told young students that his success in life resulted from THINK BIG. (ANNOTATION)

The majority of the book is written by Dr. Carson. However, his colleague Susan Warnick and his mother contributed some writings in this book. Therefore this book belongs to Autobiography/Biography. Overall, his stories are very inspirational to both young students and adults. It is clear that he has strong faith on God and he believes that God gives him his gifted hands. At the end of the book, he criticized American education in an indirect way.  He questioned that the public media emphasizes too many news on school sports and music, which might mislead young students for impossible success. His willingness to help and guide young generation should be highly praised. (PERSONAL RESPONSE)

GRADE LEVEL: 6-12
GENRE: Biography/Autography
224pp.

Topics: race, personal dream, Yale University, John Hopkins University, medical field, neurosurgery, family, education, God