Lucky Girl, Scout Bassett
Lucky Girl, Scout Bassett
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Lucky Girl
Lessons on Overcoming Odds and Building a Limitless Future

Author: Scout Bassett

Narrator: Scout Bassett

Unabridged: 5 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Worthy Books

Published: 09/26/2023


Synopsis

Sprinter, long jumper, and Paralympian Scout Bassett shares the lessons she’s learned battling the toughest challenges facing young women today.
 
As an infant in China, Scout Bassett survived a fire that took her right leg. She spent the next seven years in an orphanage before being adopted and whisked away to the United States, where she felt foreign in every way. 

Though she defied the odds and became a gold medalist and world-record holder, Scout fought against adversity her entire life—and mostly off the track. As a person with a disability, a minority, and a woman in America, she’s struggled in a culture that can make anyone—no matter who you are—feel like an outsider—an other.
 
In Lucky Girl Scout shares ten lessons she’s learned to help readers overcome some of the most difficult challenges in life today. With vulnerability, humor, and warmth, she addresses issues of identity, loneliness, image, purpose, and high expectations, among others, and offers advice for how to face them.

Scout began her journey to embrace who she is—past and all—by never forgetting where she comes from or who she is. With this guidebook on adversity and life, learn how to make peace with your past, own your identity, and create your own luck.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Abby on February 13, 2025

scout's story truly is remarkable and her advocacy as a female and paralympic athlete is admirable however i found this book to be very preachy and came off to me very much 'pull yourself up by your boot straps' attitude. scout didn't address many of the systemic racial and gender issues that americ......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on September 17, 2023

In Lucky Girl, Scout Bassett opened up about her life story and how she was an orphan who survived and became a champion. She was named Zhu Fuzhi which means Lucky Girl. She was born in Nanjing, China and she was seriously injured in a horrible fire. She lost her right leg and was then abandoned in......more

Goodreads review by Becky on September 23, 2023

PLEASE READ THIS REVIEW ON MY BLOG: [URL not allowed] AND CONSIDER FOLLOWING ME, THANK YOU! Running with the Wind! As an infant, Scout was found abandoned on the streets of China. She had been in a fire, and her right leg had to be removed. The amputation was done incorrectly, a......more

Goodreads review by Cover Lover on September 10, 2023

Wow. “Lucky Girl” is such an inspiring and motivating read that tells the remarkable story of Scout Bassett, a Paralympian who has overcome numerous challenges to achieve her dreams. This book gives a glimpse into her incredible journey, from surviving a life-altering fire that took her leg, to beco......more

Goodreads review by Laurie on December 13, 2024

This inspiring novel is the true biography of Scout Bassett, a young girl born in China who began her life with a tragic accident, the loss of her right leg in a fire. She spent the first seven years of her life in an orphanage before being adopted and moving to the United States. Once there, she en......more


Quotes

"The only thing more explosive than Scout Bassett as an athlete is Scout Bassett as an author. Her break-out book, Lucky Girl, is an example of what’s possible when we embrace who we are, leverage our influence for good, and believe in ourselves and our purpose."—Billie Jean King

"Scout lives at the intersection of being a female in sports, a minority, and having a limb difference. If anyone understands overcoming adversity, it’s Scout. Lucky Girl is a guidebook for girls and women everywhere who have ever felt like an ‘other.’ This book is going to change the way you view yourself and the world around you."—Tunde Oyeneyin, New York Times Best-Selling Author, Motivational Speaker, and Peloton Instructor

"As a fellow athlete, I have always been inspired by stories of resilience and determination. Scout Bassett’s Lucky Girl is one such story that left me awestruck and motivated. I wholeheartedly endorse this book, and I believe that it will positively impact anyone who reads it."—Allyson Felix, 5-time Olympian and Co-Founder, Saysh