Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope BagieuMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I got this book at TLA this past year and read the first couple of comics and then once I returned home it languished in my TBR pile.
Today I picked it up and started reading it again. This book is a grapic novel comprised of 29 individual comics about rebel ladies who rocked the world. It shouldn't have taken me, the more than 5 hours it took to me to read it. However, the pace of reading slows down considerably when one must Google each person after reading their short story.
This book is so fascinating and so amazing. I had not heard of the majority of these women, but I am so glad I have read about them now. Some of them I might share with my fifth graders in the fall, although some might get me nasty emails from parents, so I won't make it available to read on their own.
I would encourage you to read it though. There are woman in here who many of us know of, such as Temple Grandin, Mae Jemison, and Nellie Bly. So many of these were women who I had never heard of, each of them doing extraordinary things. There is Sonita Alizadeh, I young rapper from Afghanistan who rapped about children being sold in marriage, She was 15 at the time and her family had already tried to sell her. She is just one of the many that I googled..
I feel empowered and inadequate all at the same time.
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