What if girls did not wait to be rescued?
What if they built, created, led, and changed the world all on their own?
Girls in Shining Armor: Book 1 brings together 12 true stories of extraordinary women from around the world.
Created the first animated feature film
Built the world’s second hydroelectric power plant
Pioneered modern software engineering
Founded the world’s oldest continually operating university
Became the world’s first female admiral
Each story begins with the traits these women showed as children, and shows how those same traits grew into courage, leadership, and change.
For ages 9–14 (Girls and Boys) | 12 true stories
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Manjula Eshwaran
Manjula Eshwaran is a writer with a deep interest in history, human behavior, and inclusion. She created Girls in Shining Armor to replace outdated fairy-tale narratives with real stories of women who quietly changed the world, and to help children see their own traits as strengths, long before society tells them otherwise.
She envisions “A generation of brave, kind humans building a better world.”
