Girls to the Rescue, Book #7: Tales of Clever, Courageous Girls from Around the World - Softcover

Lansky, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0689840799 ISBN 13: 9780689840791

Publisher: Meadowbrook, 2000

Synopsis

In most heroic tales, a helpless young lady waits around for a prince to rescue her. But the spunky girls in this entertaining series are much too busy saving the day to await Prince Charming. These stories from around the world inspire readers to become a new kind of heroine. If you enjoy the stories in this book, look for more fun adventures in the other books in the series.

Eight great stories about eight

clever and courageous girls!

Once again, girls save the day in these eight exciting, inspiring, and entertaining stories from around the world

Inside you will find such heroes as:

• Kimberly, a 13-year-old American girl, who must Iand a plane flying through, a storm after the pilot is knocked and the plane loses electrical power.
• Goldie, a Jewish girl, who helps her family smuggle her two brothers out of Russia to protect them from being drafted into the Russian army.
• Taneya, a Rwandan girl, who uses her wits an her skill at basketball to outwit poachers and to save a young gorilla.
• Reni, living in the Sumatran rain forest, who must dispose of a tiger that has taken away her grandfather's livelihood.

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Review

“It is refreshing to see new girl-friendly twists on old themes that empower girls to believe in themselves and their abilities.” (Jeanette S. Gadeberg, Author of Raising Strong Daughters)

"Provides positive female role models.”

(Nicole Bondi, The Detroit News)

“Girls to the Rescue will please and inspire girls." (Women’s Circle)

“Forget about glass slippers and helpless damsels. The moral of this story is: Girls can do anything, even save the day!” (Peggy Orenstein, author of School Girls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap)

“Girls to the Rescue is a powerful antidote to all those helpless, hopeless princess stories. These stories are amusing, poignant, inspiring, and ultimately healing.” (Mary Pipher, Ph.D., author of Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls)

“Inspiring.” (Mary Hance, Nashville Banner)

“Must reading.” (Lee Littlewood, Copley News Service)

“Delightful.” (Lynn Gibson, Spokane Spokesman-Review)

“Inspiring reading.” (Kansas City Star)

“Girls to the Rescue turns a new page and Prince Charming is history.” (Sallie Han, New York Daily News)

Edition details

• Publisher: Meadowbrook
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0689840799
• ISBN 13: 9780689840791
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112