Book Set 3 - Power Girls

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Real People who Triumphed over Adversity

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Never Lose Hope

Marion Blumenthal Lazan was a little German girl at the time in history called the Holocaust. This is when a powerful man named Adolf hated certain types of people. He especially hated Jewish people. His hatred frightened Marion’s parents who are Jewish.

Run

Doris and her widowed mother thought it best to try to leave Germany. They went by ship to Shanghai, China where they spent eight long years. Their neighbors went with them and they supported one another in the “ghetto” conditions endured by the Jews.

Is There Somehing I Can Do?

Learn how war can affect people in many ways, but so can a friendly smile.

Plight of Ethiopian Girls

Amen’s story is about culture and traditions, both good and bad. She was an eyewitness to Female Genital Mutilation. PG13

Joan McMullen Nesbitt

Joan McMullen Nesbitt was born in Liverpool, England. After enduring many difficulties as a child, she was drafted into the Royal Air Force on December 7, 1941. She studied meteorology and would help plan future bombings based on weather reports.

Moonlight Serenade

Moonlight Serenade is Jack and Elsie Little’s love story, but it is also the story of a woman who was passionate about serving her country and is inspirational for readers of all ages.

The Amazing True Story of Julia Mattocks

As a young woman, during WWII, Julia Mattocks began to work for meager pay in an Ordinance plant making bombs. She later moved to California and began riveting on planes, such as B-17s. She was a heroic patriot who did everything she could possibly do for her country. She was a Rosie the Riveter.

A Woman in a Man's Army

After the war ended, Dorothy Anderson went to Germany with the Women’s Army Corps and was sent to Berlin, Germany where she worked as a stenographer. She took dictation for General Dwight D. Eisenhower and was honored to share her Thanksgiving meal with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

Peaches & Wheelchairs

Read how Dorothy (Dottie) goes from a girl who plays baseball for fun to an athlete on a professional team. She plays for the Rockford Peaches and entertains baseball fans for ten years.

From Singer to Survivor

Frieda Ella van Hessen passion was singing and, at age nineteen, her voice won her the role of Snow White in the Dutch version of the Disney classic. Once the Nazis invaded, because she was Jewish, Frieda’s singing career was over, and she became a fugitive in her own country!