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Book Review of Girls Who Rocked the World : Heroines from Sacagawea to Sheryl Swoopes

Girls Who Rocked the World : Heroines from Sacagawea to Sheryl Swoopes
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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?