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Fully updated and expanded for a new generation of young readers, Boys Who Rocked the World offers a fun, thought-provoking collection of stories. Author Michelle Roehm McCann introduces forty-six movers and shakers who rocked the world before turning twenty. A variety of achievements, interests, and ethnic backgrounds are represented, from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Bruce Lee to Crazy Horse and Stephen King. Personal aspirations from today’s young men are interspersed throughout the book, as well as profiles of teenagers who are out there rocking the world right now—boys like John Collinson, the youngest person to climb the Seven Summits, and Alec Loorz, who founded the non-profit organization Kids vs. Global Warming.

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This title is a perfect motivational tool for young men. It hits home about how you can do what you dream even at an early age if you work hard. --Barbara Allen, VOYA August 2012

In an appealing, conversational style, McCann presents minibiographies of boys from all over the world, from ancient to contemporary, who prove that youth need not be a barrier to rocking the world.

This title is a perfect motivational tool for young men. It hits home about how you can do what you dream even at an early age if you work hard. <p>--Barbara Allen, VOYA August 2012

This title is a perfect motivational tool for young men. It hits home about how you can do what you dream even at an early age if you work hard. <b>Barbara Allen</b>, <i>VOYA</i> August 2012

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Michelle Roehm McCann has worked as a children’s book editor and art director for more than twenty years, as well as writing and compiling several award-winning children’s books of her own. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, two world-rocking kids, and their brilliant cats, Horace and Percy.

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