Nineteen true stories about twenty-one real kids who changed their corner of the world.
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Twenty-one real kids who didn’t wait to grow up. They gentle wild mustangs, invent medical tests, and build apps that keep deaf people safe. With a questionnaire to help readers find their own project. Grades 4-8. Service learning.
by Micaela Myers · illustrated by Leslie Lumeh
You are already old enough.
That’s the thing nobody tells you, and it’s the thing twenty-one kids in this book figured out on their own. One gentled a wild mustang at twelve. One raised $370,000 for rare-disease research, a batch of cookies at a time. One built an app so deaf people would know when an alarm was going off.
They’re not prodigies. They’re kids with homework and chores and bad days, who saw a problem close enough to touch and decided it was theirs to work on. Superhero Kids is nineteen true stories about twenty-one real kids, ages twelve to seventeen, from fourteen states — illustrated in pen and ink by Leslie Lumeh, and closing with a guide to finding your own passion project.
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About the author: Micaela Myers began volunteering at a therapeutic riding facility when she was in junior high, kicking off a lifelong love for service that inspired her to write Superhero Kids. After earning her bachelor’s degree in literature and writing from California State University San Marcos, she went on to earn her MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. An award-winning magazine editor, Micaela has published numerous articles, short stories, and three equestrian books. She is currently working on a memoir and a novel.
About the illustrator: Leslie Lumeh was born in Damballa, Grand Cape Mount County, western Liberia, and taught himself to paint. His watercolors of daily life during Liberia’s civil war brought him attention around the world — and, for a time, exile. He returned to open Liberia’s first art gallery and to found LivArts, an academy that gives free art lessons to Liberian children. CNN has called him “Liberia’s most celebrated artist.” He now lives and paints in France. His portraits of the young people in this book were drawn from their own photographs.
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