It's Not Bragging If It's True: How to Be Awesome at Life, from a Winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
by Zaila Avant-Garde (Author)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Kids will be inspired to embrace their inner weirdness and persevere through obstacles after reading this empowering collection of true stories from teenage Scripps National Spelling Bee champ and Guinness World Record holder Zaila Avant-garde! Includes 8 pages of never-before-seen photos.
After Zaila Avant-garde became the first African American student to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2021, she turned into an overnight sensation. People wanted to know who she was and how she'd achieved so much while so young. In this nonfiction book, Zaila shares the personal anecdotes that have shaped her life and extends advice to readers on living authentically.
While Zaila is an exceptional and inspiring young woman, she has fears and anxieties just like everyone else; what makes her remarkable is the way she chooses to move through the obstacles in front of her. Zaila shares about her family, her accomplishments, her experience of being homeschooled, and so much more in order to motivate and uplift other kids who have small-, medium-, and even big-sized dreams.
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Avant-garde, the first African American Scripps National Spelling Bee champion and a two-time Guinness World Record holder, shares tips and tricks that helped her "level up" in this instructional guide. The teenager details each suggestion via conversational prose; chapter titles reference the advice presented therein, and compact sections burst with anecdotes that depict how Avant-garde applies each tip to her own life. In chapter one, Avant-garde details the tip "have someone else's back" by delving into her experiences with homeschooling, and how being constantly surrounded by her family helped her learn how to thrive in an ever-bustling environment. "If you want to level up, I think you can't start with yourself," she writes, asserting that if she didn't have a support system, she would not have found success. Subsequent advice--such as how to ask for help, roll with the punches, and show up for oneself--offers up what the author believes to be crucial practices for achieving one's goals. With intelligence and insightful humor, Avant-garde delivers an inspiring how-to manual that compels readers to lean into what makes them different and to never be ashamed of acknowledging their wins. Ages 8-12. (May)
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JNF023000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Girls & Women
JNF053160 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Topics | Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance
United States
Teenage girls
Anecdotes
Spelling bees
Success
Self-actualization (Psychology) in children
Self-help publications
Success in children
Self-actualization
Avant-garde, Zaila
