We Are Mighty

A celebration of courage, character, and the idea that the smallest step can create ripples we can’t yet see.

We Are Mighty shows what’s possible when we choose hope over fear, and refuse to give up on doing the next needed thing.

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About the Book

We Are Mighty began with one question I’ve been asked hundreds of times: How do we raise kids who don’t give up on doing good?

— SHARON McMAHON

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Spread from We Are Mighty depicting Maria De Lopez as a child and as an adult

“Want mighty kids? Give them these spectacular mighty heroes…Sharon McMahon is a national treasure!”

BRAD MELTZER · bestselling author of the Ordinary People Change the World series

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Norman Mineta

The boy in the prison camp made his lifelong friend there. They served in Congress together.

Ida Lewis

A fifteen-year-old lighthouse keeper. Ulysses S. Grant rowed his own boat out to meet her.

Gouverneur Morris

He wrote “We the People” — after a carriage accident took his leg.

“This original, uplifting volume highlights how small actions can create long-lasting effects. Recommended.”
★ SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL ★

Illustrator Susanna Chapman posing with her arms crossed next to a tree

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About the Illustrator

Susanna Chapman is an award-winning illustrator of picture books. Her work includes The Girl Who Ran, which was an Independent Publisher Book Award gold medalist; Ada and the Galaxies; Covered in Color; and The Fastest Drummer. Susanna lives with her husband in Nashville, where she draws pictures, designs books, and paints murals.

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