
Even More Fantastic Failures
True Stories of People Who Changed the World by Falling Down First
- 304 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Even More Fantastic Failures
True Stories of People Who Changed the World by Falling Down First
About this book
Even the most well-known people have struggled to succeed! This follow-up to Fantastic Failures offers up a second dose of fascinating stories featuring flops that turned into triumphs. Kids today are under a lot of pressure to succeed, but failure has an important place in life as young people learn how to be a successful person. In his teaching career, Luke Reynolds saw the stress and anxiety his students suffered, whether it was over grades, fitting in, or simply getting things right the first time. Even More Fantastic Failures is a second installment in Luke Reynolds's personal campaign to show kids it's okay to fall down or make mistakes, just so long as you try, try again!Kids will read about a host of inspiring, courageous, and diverse people who have accomplished—or still are accomplishing—big things to make this world a better place. A wide range of stories about Barack Obama, Greta Thunberg, Nick Foles, Emma Gonzalez, Beyoncé, Ryan Coogler, John Cena, Socrates, and even the Jamaican national women's soccer team, prove that the greatest mistakes and flops can turn into something amazing. In between these fun profiles, Reynolds features great scientists and other pivotal people whose game-changing discovery started as a failure. Readers will enjoy seeing stories they know highlighted in the new feature "Off the Page and On the Screen, " which showcases how failures and successes are presented in books and film.Each profile includes advice to readers on how to come back from their own flops and move forward to succeed.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Barack Obama
- Chapter 2: Kehkashan Basu
- Chapter 3: Alan Naiman
- Chapter 4: Nick Foles
- Chapter 5: Emma Gonzalez
- Chapter 6: Ryan Coogler
- Chapter 7: Boyan Slat
- Chapter 8: The Reggae Girlz (the Jamaican Women’s National Soccer Team)
- Chapter 9: Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Chapter 10: John Cena
- Chapter 11: Joan of Arc
- Chapter 12: Socrates
- Chapter 13: Phiona Mutesi
- Chapter 14: Stephanie Kwolek
- Chapter 15: Robert Indiana
- Chapter 16: All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
- Chapter 17: Carvens Lissaint
- Chapter 18: Cristina Martinez
- Chapter 19: Ayanna Pressley
- Chapter 20: Mohamad Al Jounde
- Chapter 21: Mindy Kaling
- Chapter 22: Patricia Smith
- Chapter 23: Lorenzo Santillan, Cristian Arcega, Oscar Vazquez, and Luis Aranda (Carl Hayden Community High School Robotics Squad)
- Chapter 24: Jeremy Stoppelman
- Chapter 25: Beyoncé Knowles
- Chapter 26: Greta Thunberg
- Chapter 27: Lois Jenson
- Chapter 28: New Orleans Superdome
- Chapter 29: Grace Hopper
- Chapter 30: Haifaa Al-Mansour
- Conclusion
- Off the Page and on the Screen: Fantastic Failures from the Worlds of Film and Literature!
- Exercise: Creative Questions on Failure, Success, and All the Tangents in between to Get Your Mind Moving and Your Heart Pumping!
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright