stories to inspire & empower girls to dream BIG this holiday season

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We’re thrilled to share the first chapter of our brand-new original Girl Gonna mystery: Show & Tell No One.. A fast-paced, high-stakes mystery that blends suspense, friendship, and digital sleuthing with something even more powerful: the idea that girls can be the architects of their own futures.

📖 Meet Margo Emerson, a 14-year-old girl spending her last summer before high school in the quiet town of Lake Love... until things take a dark turn. When her best friend’s little sister becomes the target of a disturbing online predator, Margo refuses to stay silent.

With her tight-knit crew (CeCe, Elena, and Lily) and the unexpected guidance of her sharp and secretive grandmother, Margo launches into a deeply personal investigation, uncovering clues, navigating digital deception, and discovering just how fierce and fearless girls can be.

If you love twisty mysteries, strong friendships, and seeing girls rise to the moment, you’re going to love this one. 🔍

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Welcome to the Girl Gonna Read Summer Book Club. Here you’ll find our favorite picks for girls who love to read…

  • A book titled 'The Confidence Code for Girls' standing upright on a red background with yellow and teal decorative lines radiating outward.

    The Confidence Code for Girls: Taking Risks, Messing Up, & Becoming Your Amazingly Imperfect, Totally Powerful Self

    Girls can rule the world—all they need is confidence. This empowering, entertaining guide from the bestselling authors of The Confidence Code gives girls the essential yet elusive code to becoming bold, brave, and fearless.

    It’s a paradox familiar to parents everywhere: girls are achieving like never before, yet they’re consumed with doubt on the inside. Girls worry constantly about how they look, what people think, whether to try out for a sports team or school play, why they aren’t getting “perfect” grades, and how many likes and followers they have online.

  • A colorful book titled 'Money' from American Girl's guide series is placed on a white wooden shelf, surrounded by books with red, blue, yellow, and green covers.

    A Smart Girl’s Guide: Money

    This book makes learning about money management easy and fun. The quizzes, tips, and helpful quotes from other girls will help her answer questions about her money style. If she has the cash, does she make it last? Or does she spend it during a big shopping spree? What’s the trick to saving for something big and to being a better shopper?

  • Book cover featuring the author Jane McGonigal, with colorful text and a quote, and a yellow starburst shape promoting the author's identity as a bestselling author.

    Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things that Seem Impossible Today

    World-renowned future forecaster, game designer, and NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Jane McGonigal gives us the tools to imagine the future without fear. escription goes here

  • Book cover titled 'Creative Confidence' with subtitle 'Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All' by Tom Kelley and David Kelley. The cover has green brushstroke designs on a white background.

    Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All

    IDEO founder and Stanford d.school creator David Kelley and his brother Tom Kelley, IDEO partner and the author of the bestselling The Art of Innovation, have written a powerful and compelling book on unleashing the creativity that lies within each and every one of us

  • A book titled "Daring Greatly" by Brené Brown standing on a bookshelf, with several other books around it.

    Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

    Every day we experience the uncertainty, risks, and emotional exposure that define what it means to be vulnerable or to dare greatly. Based on 12 years of pioneering research, Dr. Brené Brown dispels the cultural myth that vulnerability is weakness and argues that it is, in truth, our most accurate measure of courage.

    Brown explains how vulnerability is both the core of difficult emotions like fear, grief, and disappointment, and the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, empathy, innovation, and creativity. Daring Greatly is not about winning or losing. It’s about courage

  • A stack of books, with the top book titled 'OUTSPOKEN: why women's voices get silenced and how to set them free' by Veronica Rueckert, displayed upright among other books with pink and purple covers.

    Outspoken: Why Women's Voices Get Silenced and How to Set Them Free

    This book teaches the skills every woman can harness to understand her own voice and learn how to use it with confidence.

    From the Supreme Court to the conference room to the classroom, women find themselves interrupted much more often than their male counterparts. Worse, a 2015 Yale University study revealed that women executives who spoke more often than their peers were rated 14 percent less competent, while male executives who did the same thing enjoyed a 10 percent competency bump.

    It’s undeniable: women’s voices aren’t being heard - at work, at home, in every facet of their lives. The fault lies not with women, but in a culture that seeks to silence women’s voices. This book will help you be heard.

  • A book titled 'Underestimated: The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls' is placed on a white bookshelf among other books, some of which are leaning against the sides.

    Underestimated: The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls

    This uplifting book provides practical wisdom that belongs in the toolbox of every teenager, and features topics and language directly chosen by the girls, Goodan reveals how the solutions to a girl’s well-being lie within her. She offers parents the exact words they can use to help her discover these solutions and demonstrates how adults can better support a teenage girl’s voice to create positive change.

  • Three copies of a book titled "girls just wanna have funds" by Emma Due Blitz Falkenberg Hartvigen, one standing upright and two stacked horizontally, on a round, white marble table against a dark teal wall.

    Girls Just Wanna Have Funds

    Start your journey to financial success with Female Invest's guide for safe, smart, and sustainable investing. This is an empowering and uplifting money manifesto, aiming to change the tides of financial power.

    In Girls Just Want to Have Funds, the trio of founders behind the global movement Female Invest bring you an empowering five-step guide with a straight-talking message: you don't have to be an expert or a millionaire to make money. Simply equip yourself with the easy-to-follow golden rules and tools of three finance gurus to find your confidence and open a whole new world of opportunities.

And for our younger readers…

  • A children's book titled "What Do You Do With A Problem?" written by Kobi Yamada and illustrated by Mae Besom, placed on a wooden surface next to a decorative plant.

    What Do You Do With a Problem?

    This book encourages you to look closely at problems and discover the possibilities they can hold.

    it’s the story of a persistent problem and the child who isn't so sure what to make of it. The longer the problem is avoided, the bigger it seems to get. But when the child finally musters up the courage to face it, the problem turns out to be something quite different than it appeared.

    What Do You Do With a Problem? is a story for anyone, at any age, who has ever had a problem that they wished would go away. It's a story to inspire you to look closely at that problem and to find out why it's here. Because you might discover something amazing about your problem... and yourself.

  • A children's book titled "What Do You Do With An Idea?" by Kobe Yamanda, illustrated by Mac Barnett, standing on a wooden surface with a blue background, a glass jar filled with white beads or pearls on the left, and a gold coin sticker on the top right corner of the book.

    What Do You Do With an Idea?

    This is a story for anyone, at any age, who's ever had an idea that seemed a little too big, too odd, too difficult. It's a story to inspire you to welcome that idea, to give it some space to grow, and to see what happens next. Because your idea isn't going anywhere. In fact, it's just getting started.

  • A book titled 'What Do You Do With a Chance?' surrounded by gold star and butterfly decorations and string lights on a wooden surface.

    What Do You Do With a Chance?

    This is the story of one brilliant idea and the child who helps to bring it into the world. As the child's confidence grows, so does the idea itself. And then, one day, something amazing happens. This is a story for anyone, at any age, who's ever had an idea that seemed a little too big, too odd, too difficult. It's a story to inspire you to welcome that idea, to give it some space to grow, and to see what happens next. Because your idea isn't going anywhere. In fact, it's just getting started.

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