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Girls Who Rocked the World : Heroines from Sacagawea to Sheryl Swoopes
Girls Who Rocked the World Heroines from Sacagawea to Sheryl Swoopes
Author: Amelie Welden
The only book to profile girl heroines who made their mark on the world before turning twenty. Why is it that girls who want to be basketball starts or presidents of their country grow into teenagers who doubt they will ever do anything important? What are we telling girls about what they can and can't achieve? There have been many influentia...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9781885223685
ISBN-10: 1885223684
Publication Date: 4/1998
Pages: 120
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Publisher: Beyond Words Publishing
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Back Cover: GIRLS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD tells the incredible stories of thirty-three real girls, past and present, from all around the world, who achieved amzing feats and changed history before reaching their twenties.

Girls like:

Joan of Arc, a seventeen-year-old French girl who led troops against armies of English invaders. She defeated the English and rescued her country.

Phillis Wheatley, an African-American slave who became the first black woman to have her poetry published~when she was also just seventeen years old.

Cristen Powell, who learned to drag race when she was sixteen years old. She is the youngest person to earn a number one qualifying position and the youngest female drag-racing winner in history.

So....how are YOU going to ROCK THE WORLD?


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