{"product_id":"badass-black-girl-quotes-questions-and-affirmations-for-teens-gift-for-teenage-girl-9781642501728","title":"Badass Black Girl: Quotes, Questions, and Affirmations for Teens (Gift for Teenage Girl)","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Daily Dose of Affirmations Celebrating Black Joy for Teen Girls (Ages 12-16)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is a celebration, an affirmation, a history text, a little bit of memoir, and an exuberant prayer for the prosperity of Black women.\"―\u003cb\u003eAshley M. Jones\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eMagic City Gospel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly Select Title for Young Readers\u003cbr\u003e2021 In the Margins Book Award Winner, Top Title for YA Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003e#1 Best Seller and Gift Idea in Teen \u0026amp; Young Adult Cultural Heritage Biographies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAffirmations for strong, fearless Black girls. Wisdom from Badass Black female trailblazers who accomplished remarkable things in literature, entertainment, STEM, politics and law, sports and more.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplore the many facets of your identity through hundreds of big and small questions.\u003c\/b\u003e In this affirmations book created for Black girls, M.J. Fievre tackles topics such as family and friends, school and careers, body image, and stereotypes. By reflecting on these themes, you confront the issues that can hold you back from discovering your inner Black joy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmbrace authenticity and celebrate who you are.\u003c\/b\u003e Finding the courage to live as you are is not easy, so here's a book designed to help you nurture creativity and positive self-awareness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChange the way you view the world.\u003c\/b\u003e This affirmations book provides words of encouragement focused on Black joy to inspire and ignite discussion. You are growing up in a world that tries to tell you how to look and act. Fight the flow and determine for yourself who you want to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003eBadass Black Girl\u003c\/em\u003e helps you to: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuild and boost your self-esteem with powerful, positive affirmations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLearn more about yourself through insightful journaling prompts \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBecome confident in your authentic Black girl self\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf books for teens like \u003cem\u003eBlack Girl, White School\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThis Book is Antiracist\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003eWell-Read Black Girl\u003c\/em\u003e have interested you, then \u003cem\u003eBadass Black Girl\u003c\/em\u003e should be the next book you read. Also, be sure to check out M.J. Fievre's \u003cem\u003eEmpowered Black Girl\u003c\/em\u003e (2021) and \u003cem\u003eResilient Black Girl\u003c\/em\u003e (2021)!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFievre, M. J.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eBorn in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, M.J. Fievre moved to the United States in 2002. She currently writes from Miami. M.J.'s publishing career began as a teenager in Haiti. At nineteen years-old, she signed her first book contract with Hachette-Deschamps, in Haiti, for the publication of a Young Adult book titled \u003cem\u003eLa Statuette Maléfique\u003c\/em\u003e. Since then, M.J. has authored nine books in French that are widely read in Europe and the French Antilles. In 2013, One Moore Book released M.J.'s first children's book, \u003cem\u003eI Am Riding\u003c\/em\u003e, written in three languages: English, French, and Haitian Creole. In 2015, Beating Windward Press published M.J.'s memoir, \u003cem\u003eA Sky the Color of Chaos\u003c\/em\u003e, about her childhood in Haiti during the brutal regime of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Her latest book, \u003cem\u003eHappy, Okay?: Poems about Anxiety, Depression, Hope, and Survival\u003c\/em\u003e is scheduled for publication in December of 2019 by Books \u0026amp; Books Press, an imprint of Mango Publishing. Another book, \u003cem\u003eBadass Black Girl\u003c\/em\u003e is scheduled for publication in 2020. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA long-time educator and frequent keynote speaker (Tufts University, Massachusetts; Howard University, Washington, D.C.; the University of Miami, Florida; and Michael College, Vermont; and a panelist at the Association of Writers \u0026amp; Writing Programs Conference, AWP), M.J. is available for book club meetings, podcast presentations, interviews and other author events. You can learn more about her and her work at her website: mjfievre.com\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mango","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50608400498962,"sku":"9781642501728","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_95731b12-c55b-44ea-aa85-2249d4b9e412.jpg?v=1732320908","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/badass-black-girl-quotes-questions-and-affirmations-for-teens-gift-for-teenage-girl-9781642501728","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}