
Girls Who Rocked the World
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This fun and inspiring collection of influential stories provides forty-six illustrated examples of strong, independent female role models, all of whom first impacted the world as teenagers or younger. Originally published in two volumes over a decade ago, this fully updated and expanded edition of Girls Who Rocked the World spans a variety of achievements, interests, and backgrounds, from Harriet Tubman and Coco Chanel to S.E. Hinton and Maya Lin?each with her own incredible story of how she created life-changing opportunities for herself and the world. Personal aspirations from today's young women are interspersed throughout the book, which also includes profiles of teenagers who are rocking the world right now?girls like Winter Vinecki, the creator of the nonprofit organization Team Winter, and Jazmin Whitley, the youngest designer to show at L.A. Fashion Week.
It's never too soon to start making a difference, and these exhilarating examples of girl power in action make for ideal motivation.
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Amelie Welden started working on the first version of Girls Who Rocked the World as a college student in Portland, Oregon. More recently, she returned to her interest in writing and received an MFA in creative writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She currently teaches composition at the University of Michigan Dearborn and at Oakland University.
Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Note from the Authors
- Hatshepsut
- The Trung Sisters
- Joan of Arc
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
- Laura Bassi
- Eliza Lucas Pinckney
- Phillis Wheatley
- Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun
- Maria Theresia von Paradis
- Sacagawea
- Mary Anning
- The Brontë Sisters (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne)
- Florence Nightingale
- Harriet Tubman
- Margaret Knight
- Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Edmonia Lewis
- Emma Lazarus
- Helen Keller
- Anna Pavlova
- Coco Chanel
- Bessie Smith
- Irène Joliot-Curie
- Marian Anderson
- Golda Meir
- Queen Salote Tupou III
- Frida Kahlo
- Mother Teresa
- Mary Leakey
- Jackie Mitchell
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
- Indira Gandhi
- Eva "Evita" Perón
- Anne Frank
- Wilma Rudolph
- The Night Witches
- Temple Grandin
- Susan Eloise (S. E.) Hinton
- Adriana Ocampo
- Amatalrauf al-Sharki (Raufa Hassan)
- Rigoberta Menchú
- Maya Lin
- Midori Goto
- Natalie Portman
- Ashley Rhodes-Courter
- About Michelle Roehm McCann and Amelie Welden
- Recommended Resources
- Endnotes
- Copyright
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