Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World
by Penelope Bagieu
Buy on Amazon2019 Eisner Award Winner for Best U.S. Edition of International Material Throughout history and across the globe, one characteristic connects the daring women of Brazen: their indomitable spirit. With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Pénélope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies. This title has Common Core connections.
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"Brazen is a book about rebel ladies. This means that they are very famous and a bit different – like the bearded lady and the girl who looked like a witch and became the most famous actress in films, she was called Margaret Hamilton. It’s like reading a fairy tale book – but grown-up fairy tales that are actually true. The ladies are all real. There are so many ladies in the book – it makes me feel that I’m one of them too. Well, I’m just a normal girl but reading the stories makes me feel proud of myself."
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