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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life Tales of Black Girl Magic

By Barbara Saunders, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 6+

Inspiring stories of girls who became important Black women.

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Sweet and inspiring, this book encourages Black girls to be proud and dream big. Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life Tales of Black Girl Magic is part of the Rebel Girls series, and this volume focuses on Black women. The strength of this volume is in its attention to creative details in the way the stories are told: Each profile begins by describing the woman's childhood, family of origin, and puts her in temporal and geographical context. The women are presented in alphabetical order by first name, which helps young readers imagine each woman as a girl her age. Whether the woman is alive or deceased, her biography is written to convey the feeling of getting to know the living woman in her heyday.

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