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What does brave actually look like?

It is not always the soldier on the poster. Sometimes it is a thirteen-year-old girl with a diary. A gym teacher with a whistle. A sailor who was told he was only allowed to cook and clean. A medic who walked into the deadliest battle of the war without ever picking up a gun.

When twelve-year-old Leo, the shortest kid in his grade and certain that brave is for other people, climbs into his great-grandfather's attic, he finds an old trunk. Inside is a lifetime of objects, and every single one has a true story attached to it.

What Brave Looks Like brings young readers twelve real people from World War II who each answered the same question with their lives:

• Anne Frank, who used a diary to refuse to disappear
• the resistance hero who smuggled hundreds of Jewish children to safety by turning escape into a game
• Sylvia Mendez, eight years old, who helped end school segregation in California
• the Navajo Code Talkers, who turned their own language into a code the enemy never broke
• Dorie Miller, the Tuskegee Airmen, and the Japanese-American soldiers who fought for a country that doubted them
• Josephine Baker, the most famous spy hiding in plain sight
• Audie Murphy, Noor Inayat Khan, Desmond Doss, and more

Every story is true. Every name, date, and place is real and carefully researched, with a short Author's Note and sources at the end of each chapter. The hardest history is handled honestly but never gruesomely, pitched exactly for the way real 10-to-14-year-olds read. And every chapter ends with a Your Mission that turns history into something a kid can practice today: courage, kindness, standing up, telling the truth.

A perfect gift for:

• readers ages 10 to 14 who love true stories and history
• reluctant readers who want short, gripping chapters
• parents, grandparents, and teachers looking for a meaningful, screen-free gift
• any kid who has ever felt too small, too quiet, or too ordinary to matter

Because brave does not have one face. It looks like ordinary people, of every kind, choosing to step forward when something needs doing.