Once again, girls save the day in these eight exciting, inspiring, and entertaining stories from around the world

Inside you will find such heroes as:

• Kimberly, a 13-year-old American girl, who must Iand a plane flying through, a storm after the pilot is knocked and the plane loses electrical power.

• Goldie, a Jewish girl, who helps her family smuggle her two brothers out of Russia to protect them from being drafted into the Russian army.

• Taneya, a Rwandan girl, who uses her wits an her skill at basketball to outwit poachers and to save a young gorilla.

• Reni, living in the Sumatran rain forest, who must dispose of a tiger that has taken away her grandfather's livelihood.