Marie Curie -- Mallory Holtman and Liz Wallace -- Joan Ganz Cooney -- Audrey Hepburn -- Helen Keller -- Christopher Reeve -- Carol Burnett -- Amelia Earhart -- Alex Scott -- Abigail Adams -- Anne Frank -- Dorothy Day -- Judy Blume -- Sacajawea -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Julia Child -- Golda Meir -- Stevie Wonder -- Nancy G. Brinker -- Clara Barton -- Sheila Spicer -- Winston Churchill -- Lisa Simpson -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Tina Turner -- The Three Stooges -- Wangari Maathai -- Agatha Christie -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Dolly Parton -- Sojourner Truth -- Branch Rickey -- Lucille Ball -- Elizabeth Blackburn -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Mahatma Gandhi -- Mary Shelley -- Rochelle Shoretz -- Tank Man -- Billie Jean King -- The heroes of United Flight 93 -- Temple Grandin -- Rosa Parks -- Jane Goodall -- The Dalai Lama -- Abraham Lincoln -- Thurgood Marshall -- Dorothea Lange -- Hannah Senesh -- Randy Pausch -- Sally Ride -- Benjamin Franklin -- Wilma Rudolph -- Dotty Rubin -- Teri Meltzer -- Cori Flam Meltzer -- Who is your hero?

Collects the stories of fifty-five extraordinary heroes and ideal role models for girls, including Abraham Lincoln, Marie Curie, Rosa Parks, Helen Keller, Anne Frank, Theodore Roosevelt, and the passengers of United Flight 93.