Heroes for My Daughter
| Author | Brad Meltzer |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Advice |
| Publisher | HarperStudio |
Publication date | 2014 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 144 pp |
| ISBN | 9780061905261 |
| OCLC | 760977817 |
Heroes for My Daughter is a non-fiction book written by Brad Meltzer. It contains a series of vignettes on inspiring heroes - famous and lesser known - whose stories Brad wanted to share with his daughter. It is the follow-up to the bestselling book Heroes for My Son. According to WorldCat, the book is in 558 libraries.[1]
Contents
The book contains vignettes, quotations, and black and white photos of the following heroes: Marie Curie, Mallory Holtman and Liz Wallace, Joan Ganz Cooney, Audrey Hepburn, Helen Keller, Christopher Reeve, Carol Burnett, Amelia Earhart, Alex Scott, Abigail Adams, Anne Frank, Dorothy Day, Judy Blume, Sacajawea, Theodore Roosevelt, Julia Child, Golda Meir, Stevie Wonder, Nancy G. Brinker, Clara Barton, Sheila Spicer, Winston Churchill, Lisa Simpson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Tina Turner, The Three Stooges, Wangari Maathai, Agatha Christie, Leonardo da Vinci, Dolly Parton, Sojourner Truth, Branch Rickey, Lucille Ball, Elizabeth Blackburn, Ella Fitzgerald, Mahatma Gandhi, Mary Shelley, Rochelle Lee Shoretz, Tank Man, Billie Jean King, The heroes of United Flight 93, Temple Grandin, Rosa Parks, Jane Goodall, The Dalai Lama, Abraham Lincoln, Thurgood Marshall, Dorothea Lange, Hannah Senesh, Randy Pausch, Sally Ride, Benjamin Franklin, Wilma Rudolph, Dotty Rubin, Teri Meltzer, Cori Flam Meltzer.
Press
The book reached #6 on the New York Times bestseller list.[2]