Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2

Implied positive messages on every page, including follow your dreams, don't take no for an answer, you can be whatever you want to be if you have a special talent or skill and work hard, never give up, and don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do something because you're a girl. Each portrait includes a quote by the woman or girl, such as this from New York's first Asian-American female firefighter, Sarinya Srisakul: "The main thing about being 'heroic' is helping others." There are more positive messages and quotes in the text of the profiles, such as this one from ultramarathon runner Lowri Morgan: "Glory is not by never falling, but in the way we rise when we do fall."

Some references to war and revolution, including a battle between American Indians and settlers with "bullets flying." A young woman's political enemies burn down her father's shop. Several references to Jews being persecuted -- and hidden from Nazis -- in WWII. Reference to refugees who've been displaced and "lost their families." Mention of spy Mata Hari being executed by firing squad. Mention of ISIS terrorists killing a teen girl's brothers and kidnapping her and other women in Iraq. "Nadia [Murad] was held onstage by men who hurt her badly," but she escapes and goes on to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Mention of police opening fire on protesters in South Africa during the apartheid era. Reference to Oprah Winfrey's grandmother beating her. A woman stands up to the Mafia in Italy after her husband's fellow criminal gang members have killed him and their son. "You drank my son's blood," she says to them at their court trial.