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Stories for Kids Who Dare to Be Different
- Author
- Ben Brooks
- Narrator
- Jasmine Blackborow, Joe Leat
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio for Young Listeners
- Publish Date
- 7 May 2019
- Run Time
- 3 hours 59 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
The follow-up to Ben Brooks's New York Times bestselling Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different, this audiobook offers more extraordinary true stories of amazing people who broke the mold and changed the world for the better. The resulting message? Be yourself, and your dreams might come true.
Brooks offers an accessible compilation of 76 famous and not-so-famous influencers from the past to the present day, every single one of them a rule-breaker and stereotype-smasher in his or her own way. Entries include Emma Gonzalez, Andy Warhol, Bjork, Hans Christian Andersen, Sally Ride, and so many more -- heroes from all walks of life and from all over the world.
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Details
- Author
- Ben Brooks
- Narrator
- Jasmine Blackborow, Joe Leat
- Duration
- 3 hours 59 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 May 2019
- ISBN
- 9781549177477
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio for Young Listeners
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Boys and men, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women
Synopsis
Boys will be boys and girls will be girls? Not in this audiobook.The follow-up to Ben Brooks's New York Times bestselling Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different, this audiobook offers more extraordinary true stories of amazing people who broke the mold and changed the world for the better. The resulting message? Be yourself, and your dreams might come true.Brooks offers an accessible compilation of 76 famous and not-so-famous influencers from the past to the present day, every single one of them a rule-breaker and stereotype-smasher in his or her own way. Entries include Emma Gonzalez, Andy Warhol, Bjork, Hans Christian Andersen, Sally Ride, and so many more -- heroes from all walks of life and from all over the world.
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