The Impossible Boy

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World

Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World

Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America

Counting the Stars: The Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician

Rebel Girls Lead: 25 Tales of Powerful Women

Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, a Kitten, and 10,000 Miles

Bold & Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote

Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different Series

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.

You won't find any stories of slaying dragons or saving princesses here. In Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different, 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.

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.

Social Justice

Courage

Perseverance

Empathy

Identity

National Pride

Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different: True Tales of Amazing Boys Who Changed the World Without Killing Dragons

Discover Your Child's Next Read

The Impossible Boy

Ben Brooks, 2019

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World

Elena Favilli, 2020

Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World

Vashti Harrison, 2018

Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America

Andrea Davis Pinkney, Brian Pinkney, 2012

Counting the Stars: The Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician

Raúl Colón, Lesa Cline-Ransome, 2019

Rebel Girls Lead: 25 Tales of Powerful Women

Rebel Girls, 2021

Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, a Kitten, and 10,000 Miles

Mara Rockliff, Hadley Hooper, 2016

Bold & Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote

Kirsten Gillibrand, Maira Kalman, 2018