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ALADDIN

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Children’s Publishing Division

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BEYOND WORDS

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This Aladdin/Beyond Words edition October 2012

Text copyright © 1998, 2009, 2012 by Amelie Welden

Text copyright © 2000 by Michelle Roehm

Text copyright © 2012 by Michelle R. McCann

Interior illustrations copyright © 2012 by Beyond Words Publishing, Inc.

Portions of this work were previously published in an earlier edition of Girls Who Rocked the World and in Girls Who Rocked the World 2.

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Managing editor: Lindsay S. Brown

Editors: Emmalisa Sparrow, Ali McCart

Interior design: Sara E. Blum

Interior illustrations: David Hahn

The text of this book was set in Adobe Garamond Pro.

The illustrations for this book were rendered in Adobe Illustrator.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

McCann, Michelle Roehm,

Girls who rocked the world : heroines from Anne Frank to Natalie Portman / Michelle Roehm McCann and Amelie Welden.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Girls—Biography—Juvenile literature. 2. Women heros—Biography—Juvenile literature. 3. Heros—Biography—Juvenile literature. I. Welden, Amelie, 1975– II. Title.

CT3207.M34 2012

920.72—dc23

2011050502

ISBN 978-1-58270-302-2 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-58270-361-9 (hc)

ISBN 978-1-4424-5182-7 (eBook)