
Girls Who Rocked The World
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Get ready to meet some incredible young women who made their mark on the world before turning twenty and prove that when it comes to having an impact, there's no such thing as too young! Whether designing famous momuments, fighting for their countries' freedom or being political pioneers these gutsy girls have changed the way we view the world and ourselves.
From Florence Nightingale to Anna Pavlova, Coco Chanel to Eva Peron, The Bronte Sisters to Indira Gandhi, this book features women from across history and around the globe, who have all achieved remarkable things.
Interspersed with the amazing accounts of girls throughout history are stories of powerful young women who are changing the world right now - girls like Winter Vinecki, the creator of the non-profit 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 - be inspired and empowered by this fun collection that shows girls really can rock the world!
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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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