Girls Who Changed the World

Ming Qong is convinced that girls have changed history throughout the world. She's faced danger and adventure when Herstory sent her to the past to witness girls' bravery in the incredible feats left out of 'histories'. Now Ming asks Herstory for another time-travelling quest—this time, one that is less confronting. Ming finds herself in relative luxury, heading to an unknown destination on a ship carrying royal Saxon sheep, travelling with the girls who care for them. What do female shepherds have to do with history? And is it even possible for sheep to be royal? As Ming knows only too well, change is never easy, so how can one girl—and a sheep—change the world? From one of Australia's favorite authors comes an inspiring series for all the young people who will, one day, change the world.

Ming Qong is convinced that girls have changed the world throughout history. History's sister, the mysterious Herstory, believes that the more you know about the past, the better you can understand the future. And so, she now sends Ming back in time to work as a maid in an isolated mansion in England to see a girl change the world in 1829. But which girl? The young mistress of the house is lying in bed blind and immobile, recovering from the measles. Abandoned by her aristocratic mother and other family, she may never walk or even read or write again. Ming becomes friends with another scullery maid, Hephzibah, who longs to free slaves, as she and her parents had been. Hepzibah is also desperately teaching herself to read. But what hope has a scullery maid? When Hepzibah is accused of a crime that might send her to the gallows, it is up to Ming to prove her innocent, as well as find the person in this lonely house who will-surprisingly-help pioneer the computer revolution. From one of the Australia's favorite writers comes an inspiring series for all the young people who will, one day, change the world.

In this fifth and final book in The Girls Who Changed the World series, Ming Qong discovers who she is, and that she, too, will change the world. Herstory, History's sister, has sent Ming all through history to meet girls who have changed the world. But now, Herstory promises to show Ming something of her own past: her long-lost mother. So when Ming washes up on the shores of Nantucket Island in 1836, she is confused. She is saved by the elderly Mrs Sloe and wealthy Miss Reynolds, but there is no sign of a woman who could be her mother. The island is home to Maria Mitchell, who, at seventeen, has already published her first papers on astronomy, and will go on to inspire universities around the world. Maria's future holds extraordinary promise and fame. But what about Ming? Ming's time on Nantucket will revolutionise all she believes about herself, her family, and Herstory too. In this final book in the Girls Who Changed the World series, Ming Qong discovers who she is, and how she, too, will change the world.