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From W.B. E. Chicago, this is Nernet.

I'm Greta Johnson.

And you've probably noticed, I I mean especially over the last couple of

years more and more people have been drawing attention to the achievements of

women in history right which is great it's super awesome I am like definitely highly stoked about it, but there's one thing that might be even more exciting and that is highlighting the achievements of girls, people who have helped change the world before they even turned 20.

That means they're like doing good stuff before they can rent a car or buy a bottle of champagne or whatever and that is what

Rad Girls Can is all about. It's the third book by Kate Shots and Miriam clients

stall. They are our guests this week and they said the inspiration for this

book in particular literally came from a bunch of kids who just kept asking for it.

Over and over we heard kids asking if we could do a book about girls and people of their age.

And it kind of intimidated us at first because it's a really different kind of research.

Our two other books have been focusing on women from

history whose stories are you know a little fuller and more developed and

there's scholarly research about them but this book tells 50 stories of girls and teenagers

under 20 who've done great things and they don't even have like a whole lifetime to

show for those accomplishments yet like that's crazy yeah they've already done

such cool stuff and I think that in like the way that I ended up

thinking about telling the stories and framing them was again less about their whole

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