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Tells the stories of seventy-six heroic men and boys from around the globe and across history, including Mahatma Gandhi, Barack Obama, and Alan Turing.
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<b>Boys can be anything they want to be! This timely book joins and expands the gender-role conversation and gives middle-grade boys a welcome alternative message: that masculinity can mean many things. </b><br><br> You won't find any stories of slaying dragons or saving princesses here. In <i>Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different, </i>author Ben Brooks-with the help of Quinton Wintor's striking full-color illustrations-offers a welcome alternative narrative: one that celebrates introverts and innovators, sensitivity and resilience, individuality and expression. <br><br> It's an accessible compilation of 75 famous and not-so-famous men from the past to the present day, every single one of them a rule-breaker and stereotype-smasher in his own way. Entries include Frank Ocean, Salvador Dali, Beethoven, Barack Obama, Ai Weiwei, Jesse Owens, and so many more-heroes from all walks of life and from all over the world.
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