This book provides quick profiles on thirteen adventurous women from history. The author goes out of her way to include several less well-known women who nonetheless led exciting and notable lives, though the selection is still very Eurocentric. Of the thirteen women, only two are women of color, Sacajawea and Bessie Coleman, the first black female pilot. However, each of these stories can serve as its own jumping off point for kids to explore other people and events, and the spectrum of accomplishments is wide and various, if not the personalities. Unfortunately, the author does not include references or further readings in the book itself. ( )