Key Selling Points:

• The women profiled are from around the world and represent a diverse group of cultures and religions. They include a Muslim Canadian basketball player, an Afghan midwife, a Ghanaian judge and US Black Rights activist.
• This book shows girls anywhere in the world that no matter their culture, age, ability, sexuality, or religion, if they see an injustice they can try and change it.
• Most of these women are unknown to the average North American young reader.
• Author Helen Wolfe had a physical disability and spent years working in social work and teaching children with disabilities and ESL.
• Helen Wolfe is the author of Unstoppable: Women With Disabilities, an award-nominated biography collection for younger readers, and Terrific Women Teachers, a book in the celebrated Women’s Hall of Fame series
• World Shakers is the second book in the Do You Know My Name? series, which profiles women who deserve more recognition.

What does it take to change the world? Whether it was the rule that forced Muslim women athletes like Ibtihaj Muhammad to choose between competition and wearing hijab or Indigenous women like Mary Two-Axe Earley to lose their official Indigenous status when they married white men, these women fought against it. Sometimes, they used their voice, like disability rights activist Judy Heumann, and Alicia Garza, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter. Sometimes, they led by example, like the STEM-loving Afghan Dreamers. All of them had the courage to shake the world and make a path for other women to follow.

What does it take to change the world? Whether it was the rule that forced Muslim women athletes like Ibtihaj Muhammad to choose between competition and wearing hijab or Indigenous women like Mary Two-Axe Earley to lose their official Indigenous status when they married white men, these women made change happen.