Wonder Girls

Girls as young as 10 are banding together to transform the world, leveraging their energy and intelligence, creativity and confidence, determination and dreams. Wonder Girls: Changing Our World is the first book to document these girl-led groups, which are improving health, education, equality, and the environment; stopping child marriage, domestic violence, trafficking, and war. The book features 15 groups of girls, all age 10 to 18, who are tackling challenges in 13 countries in the Middle East, Asia, North and Latin America, Africa, and Oceania. For this book, Paola Gianturco and her 11-year-old granddaughter, Alex Sangster, teamed up to interview and photograph 102 girls, each of whom tells her own story in her own words. In this book, you will watch girls lobby U.S. senators; see Mexican girls invent mobile phone apps; meet Malawian girls who convinced Parliament to outlaw child marriage. You will eavesdrop on Ugandan girls as they advocate for girls'' rights at a UN meeting. And you will meet other girls as they write blogs, petitions, poetry, create radio shows, videos, invent dances, songs, and works of art to promote their causes. Wonder Girls: Changing Our World is a call to action to help these girls accomplish their important work. Sangster''s sections, the finale of each chapter, tell you how. One hundred percent of the authors'' royalties from Wonder Girls will go to The Global Fund for Women to benefit grassroots groups of activist girls and women around the world.