Just a Girl

Throughout time, folk stories and fairy tales have had young women waiting to be rescued by a dashing hero. They are sitting around no more! The adapted and original stories in the entertaining Girls to the Rescue series send girls to do the saving. Among the heroes in this book you will meet Jamila, a girl who saves her village from a terrible lion; Adrianna, a Mexican girl who rescues her family's farm from ruin; and Vassilisa, a Russian aristocrat who saves her brother from prison.