This illustrated chapter book mixes factual narrative with fictionalised episodes and imagined conversations to tell the inspiring story of Arthur Ashe's rise to fame. It recreates in detail his childhood in the southern city of Richmond - where segregation still held sway and he had to battle racism in its many forms to achieve his dream of playing tennis at the highest level. It concludes with an account of his later involvement with the international politics of race and of AIDS. This is a lively and fast-paced biography.