Brave New Girls: Tales of Girls who Engineer and Explore
By Mary Fan & Paige Daniels
- Release Date: 2023-07-05
- Genre: Fiction for Kids
Venture into a world where extraordinary heroines use their brains and STEM savvy to save the day in sci-fi adventures. A young botanist saves her dying planet with her horticultural acumen. Clever students use only their wits and spare parts to flee the clutches of an intergalactic kidnapper. Teen roboticists join forces to defeat an alien vying for ownership of Earth. A hackathon participant discovers the long-lost lab of an eccentric scientist. Get swept away by tales of girls who hack, explore, invent, and build. With tales ranging from solarpunk to post-apocalyptic, these 28 stories have something in store for all.
Proceeds from sales of this anthology will be donated to the Society of Women Engineers scholarship fund. Let's show girls that they can be the next generation of innovators and inventors.
Stories by:
Bryna Butler, JD Cadmon, Rachel Delaney Craft, Paige Daniels, Mary Fan, Daphne Fauber, Janina Franck, Sarah A. Goodman, Annie Gray, Jocelyne Gregory, Andrew K. Hoe, Brenda Huettner and Sally Krueger, Valerie Hunter, A.A. Jankiewicz, Emma Jun, Brad Jurn, Kris Katzen, Jeanne Kramer-Smyth, Ira Nayman, Jelani-Akin Parham, Scott Pinkowski, Josh Pritchett, Mackenzie Reide, Jennifer Lee Rossman, J.R. Rustrian, Joanna Schnurman, Harley Scroggins, and Denise Sutton.
Featuring illustrations by Martina Localzo, Adriano Moraes, RM Nielsen, Josh Pritchett, Harley Scroggins, Barbara Smith, Emily Smith, Kay Wrenn, and Bonnie Wright.