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Doris Lacks' book, Girl Power, provides a wide variety of life illustrations. These stories provide examples to support you in life and usefulness. Her short stories provide a descriptive summary of forty-two women demonstrating successful lives in various life experiences producing powerful, successful outcomes. The author begins with brief accounts of three women from Bible times. She continues with stories from a variety of multicultural and racially diverse women ranging from Medieval Times to current days. Her brief descriptions of the 42 women record their life events, interests, goals, capabilities, and accomplishments. These descriptions provide opportunities for power for those reading Girl Power. Some women's names may be very familiar to you, and others may be completely strange. The wide variety of stories allows readers to learn about life interests, supportive family and life relationships, new experiences, interesting activities to nurture and support goals and capabilities, and exciting outcomes. Readers will have opportunities to see how many discoveries, experiments, outcomes, and inventions, even from centuries in the past, have implications on our lives today and in the future. As we read of personal accomplishments related to leadership, personal physical goals, entertainment expertise, and cultural awareness resulting in societal changes, we are challenged to become a part of the stories' outcomes as they relate to us - personal power. -Dynnette Hart Readers familiar with Doris Lacks' Boy Power will find her new book, Girl Power, equally delightful. Its forty-three short chapters, which tell the exciting stories of forty-four girls from Bible times to the modern era, are packed with wonderful descriptions of the challenges they faced, the tragedies they overcame, and the triumphs they achieved through hard work, self-control, and living healthful lifestyles. As if gradually unwrapping a mystery, each two- to four-page chapter opens with an intriguing title, provides the date and setting for the story, but never gives the full name of the character until near the end of the narrative. Each biographical sketch closes with the birth and death dates of that woman and provides an appropriate Bible text that applies to her life and ours. The author writes with a polished style that includes vivid descriptions, action verbs, and delightful dialogue that quickly draws the reader into the plot from the very first paragraph. The stories, intended for elementary and junior high children, contain age-appropriate prose which does not dwell on themes of violence or immorality. Instead, each narrative teaches children lessons about working hard, finding balance in life, and incorporating gratitude, purity, respect, helpfulness, and devotion to God. Drawing from a wide range of books and articles, Lacks condenses the amazing stories of girls who became poets and politicians, authors and artists, scientists and sports icons, musicians and missionaries. Among the forty-four women she has chosen, three came from Ancient Palestine, two from Asia, ten from Europe, and twenty-nine from the United States. Some, such as Joan of Arc, Pocahontas, and Ellen White will be familiar to young readers, while others like Anna Moses, Sylvia Earle, and Suni Lee are less known. But each story is designed to inspire girls to strive to do their best and become all that they can be. Brian Strayer, Professor Emeritus of History, Andrew University

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Doris Irish Lacks has served in various capacities for the benefit of young people for over seventy years. She has been a pastor's wife, a children's Sabbath school teacher, a women's dean at Southern Missionary College (now Southern Adventist University), and an administrative secretary at Clarkson University in New York. She graduated from the University of Iowa with a music degree specializing in Trombone Performance.

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