Ambition

Butcher-McGunnigle, Zarah. Taking control
A short story, dealing with family relations and ambition. It is found in Tennis with raw eggs (Re-Draft series ; 6).
Courtenay, Bryce. The power of one
No stranger to the injustice of racial hatred, five-year-old Peekay learns the hard way the first secret of survival and self-preservation - the power of one. An encounter with amateur boxer Hoppie Groenewald inspires in Peekay a fiery ambition - to be welterweight champion of the world.
Earls, Nick. Making laws for clouds
This summer is different because there's a new girl in town. It's different because she's Tanika Bell - occasional bus driver, regular optimist and, it turns out, woman of the world. But expecting life to play by the rules is like making laws for clouds. Kane's whole family has never worked by the rules. His dad ran off years ago, his mother's still chafing and drinking, andhot and humid, and Kane works the road verges. But he's got lofty ambitions, he's got Tanika on his mind and he's going to make this summer count, whatever it takes.
Hellard, Bernadette & Gibbs, Lisa. Netball diary
Rachel is to play at the Commonwealth Games in Ottawa, her lifelong ambition to play for her country fulfilled. Her dad gives her a hand-held computer, so she can keep a diary of her adventures in Canada. In it she records her travel experiences, her on-court triumphs, and her struggle to adjust to life without her ex-boyfriend Daniel.
Newbury-Swash, Ruth. Bewitching golf
The story of thirteen-year-old Belinda who lives in New Zealand with her mother, her best friend Tui and Marmalade the cat. Fed up with her life, bored and lonely, she is inexplicably haunted by her father's death. In the gutter she discovers a magic pink golf ball and starts to dream of her future as a champion golfer.
Rabe, Jean. Red ambition
This is a short story, found in "The best of the realms: Volume 1".
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet
When Hamlet's mother remarries shortly after his father's death, he's suspicious. And when his father's ghost tells him that he was murdered by the queen's new husband, Hamlet swears to take his revenge.
Shakespeare, William. Macbeth
When Macbeth meets the witches on the heath, he can't believe the fame and fortune they predict for him. Then he sees that with one murder it could all be within his grasp. but one murder leads to another.
Wallace, Karen. The unrivalled Spangles
Ellen is the eldest daughter of the owner and ringmaster of Spangles Circus.She performs with her sister Lucy in a famous bareback horse-riding duo called the Incredible Scarletta Sisters. Lucy revels in the limelight but Ellen finds the showy world of the circus a prison. She is determined to break with tradition and get an education. Ellen deceives her parents and, unwittingly, helps Lucy form a dangerous relationship with a rival circus owner's son.