If you could hop on a plane right now, where would you go?

Brazil, Japan, South Africa, Italy?

Well, now you can travel around the world with more than 70 real-life Rebel Girls as your guides.

In our brand new book, Girls Like Me, Meet Girls who share their favorite traditions, their big dreams, their everyday adventures, and what makes their home special.

Along the way, you'll discover that we all have more in common than you might think.

Check out our new book.

Girls like me celebrate real-life Rebel Girls all around the world.

Available now, anywhere books are sold. It's time to rest again, rebels, to let the day go, to let your mind wander.

We're going to hear the story of Leah Chase, a chef who squeezed everything she could out of life.

She loved to cook, and she loved it because she discovered food has a way of changing people's minds,

softening their hearts, and bringing them together.

Have you ever taken a seed, with water and patience turned it into something you could eat?

Have you ever taken something small that others would have thrown away and turned it into something beautiful?

You could call this resourcefulness or inventiveness or magic.

Leah Chase had a knack for this kind of magic,

so let's go back to where it all started.

Back to an old shabby house on a huge plot of land in Madisonville, Louisiana.

Back to a warm summer morning with a sweetness in the air from rows and rows and rows of strawberries in the garden.

Leah lay down lazily in the grass, letting little beads of sweat pop up all over her skin and cover her like diamonds.

She was admiring her daddy's gardens, lush and beautiful gardens with every vegetable

or fruit you could want. But it wasn't always that way.

You see, Leah's mama and daddy had 14 children,

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