Girls to the rescue, book four : tales of clever, courageous girls from around the world

A collection of eight short stories featuring girls as the clever and courageous heroes. Fishing for trouble / Sandy Cudmore Rachel's promise / Liya Lev Oertel Keesha and the rat / J.M. Kelly Temper, temper / adapted by Bruce Lansky from an Italian folktale Skateboard Rosie and the soda kids / Diane Sawyer Save Wellington Woods! / Laurie Eynon The apple pie house / Janet Smith Mai's magic / Jason Sanford. Fortællinger om modige, kvikke og handlekraftige piger, som trodser omgivelsernes fordomme om hvad piger kan og bør gøre. De redder med fare for deres eget liv mennesker i nød og bruger deres forstand til at hjælpe sig selv og andre i vanskelige situationer "Girls to the Rescue turns a new leaf and Prince Charming is history."--Sallie Han, New York Daily News. The serial is described by Mary Pipher as "a powerful antidote to all those helpless, hopeless princess stories." The clever courageous girls in these eight stories provide an alternative to traditional fairy tales and folktales in which girls get married off or rescued by a prince A collection of eight stories, with author biographies, featuring admirable girls in both familiar and exotic settings A collection of ten stories featuring admirable girls in both familiar and exotic settings