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"NPR's Books We Love 2023 Glamour's ""The 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023, So Far"" Vogue's ""Best Books of 2023 (So Far)"" Town & Country's ""The Best Books of 2023"" A ""heartening inspiration""(The New York Times), the untold story of the people who have helped spark America’s most transformative social movements throughout history: teenage girls Nine months before Rosa Parks kicked off the bus boycotts, Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was fifteen. In 1912, women’s rights activists organized a massive march in support of women’s suffrage. Leading them up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan was not one of the mothers of the movement, but a teenage Chinese immigrant named Mabel Ping-Hua Lee. Half a century before the better-known movements for workers’ rights began, over 1,500 girls—some as young as ten—walked out of factories in Lowell, Massachusetts, demanding safer working conditions and higher wages in one of the nation’s first-ever labor strikes. Young women have been disenfranchised and discounted, but the true retelling of major social movements in America reveals their might: they have ignited almost every single one. Young and Restless recounts one of the most foundational and underappreciated forces in moments of American revolution: teenage girls. From the American Revolution itself to the Civil Rights Movement to nuclear disarmament protests and the women’s liberation movement, through Black Lives Matter and school strikes for climate, Mattie Kahn uncovers how girls have leveraged their unique strengths, from fandom to intimate friendships, to organize and lay serious political groundwork for movements that often sidelined them. Their stories illuminate how much we owe to girls throughout the generations, what skills young women use to mobilize and find their voices, and, crucially, what we can all stand to learn from them."

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Thoughtful and compassionate --Kirkus Reviews Young and Restless is inspiring without being sentimental, a lively and engaging read that nonetheless challenges and complicates dusty narratives. It's for anyone who cares about girls and a more just world. You wish this is what you'd learned in history class. --Irin Carmon, co-author of the New York Times bestselling Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg In Young and Restless, Mattie Kahn treats girl activists with rigor and curiosity, and is clear-eyed in her examination of how we too often erase their social and political contributions from the historical record, iron over the ways their youthful preoccupations shape their engagement, and fetishize their girlhood in a way that makes their growth into adults more challenging. This is a really smart book. --Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author of Good and Mad Young and Restless honors the ferocious power of teenage girls. In this bracing retelling of the social movements, Mattie Kahn celebrates girls not as saviors, but as leaders and visionaries deserving of our recognition. --Billie Jean King, New York Times bestselling author of All In In her aptly titled debut book, Young and Restless, Mattie Kahn captures the unique, irrepressible brilliance of girls who have shaped every modern movement for social progress. This book is a vital primer on decades of abolitionists, environmentalists, and other unsung heroines who challenged the powers that be and demanded change. Audacious and often irreverent, the girls of Kahn's mighty sisterhood will inspire you to action and leave you shouting: 'Long live girl power!' --Cecile Richards, New York Times bestselling author of Make Trouble and former President of Planned Parenthood Young and Restless is a remarkable debut and a landmark work that has earned its place on the history shelves. With vivid clarity, rigorous research, and trenchant commentary, Mattie Kahn chronicles the potency of female adolescence, exploring with nuance what it means to bear witness to the young women transforming America. Their contributions to American history are invaluable and the nation is forever indebted to them. This book, like the girls whose stories it chronicles, is not to be ignored. --Aminatou Sow, New York Times bestselling co-author of Big Friendship

In Young and Restless, Mattie Kahn treats girl activists with rigor and curiosity, and pays them the respect of being neither too awed nor too precious in her appraisal of their contributions. Kahn is clear-eyed in her examination of how we too often erase the social and political contributions of young women from the historical record, iron over the ways their youthful preoccupations shape their engagement, and fetishize their girlhood in a way that makes their growth into adults more challenging. This is a really smart book. --Rebecca Traister, author of Good and Mad, All the Single Ladies, and Big Girls Don't Cry Young and Restless celebrates the ferocious power of teenage girls. In this bracing retelling of the social movements, Mattie Kahn celebrates girls not as saviors, but as leaders and visionaries deserving of our recognition. --Billie Jean King, Sports Icon and Champion of Equality Did you know that throughout American history young women have ignited every major social movement? I did not, so I find myself incredibly grateful for the vivid clarity of Mattie Kahn's writing as well as her rigorous research and trenchant commentary. Young and Restless turns the lens on the revolutionary power of teenage girls. By accurately capturing and chronicling the potency of female adolescence, Kahn forces the reader to linger in the nuances of what it means to really bear witness to the young women transforming America. Their contributions to American history are invaluable and the nation is forever endebted to them. Learning their histories, their friendships, their disappointments and sacrifices is the very bare minimum. This book, like the girls whose stories it chronicles, is not to be ignored. It is a remarkable debut and a landmark work that has earned its place on the History shelves. --Aminatou Sow, co-author of Big Friendship and co-host of Call Your Girlfriend

Did you know that throughout American history young women have ignited every major social movement? I did not, so I find myself incredibly grateful for the vivid clarity of Mattie Kahn's writing as well as her rigorous research and trenchant commentary. Young and Restless turns the lens on the revolutionary power of teenage girls. By accurately capturing and chronicling the potency of female adolescence, Kahn forces the reader to linger in the nuances of what it means to really bear witness to the young women transforming America. Their contributions to American history are invaluable and the nation is forever endebted to them. Learning their histories, their friendships, their disappointments and sacrifices is the very bare minimum. This book, like the girls whose stories it chronicles, is not to be ignored. It is a remarkable debut and a landmark work that has earned its place on the History shelves. --Aminatou Sow, co-author of Big Friendship and co-host of Call Your Girlfriend

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Mattie Kahn is an award-winning writer and editor. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Vox, and more. She was the culture director at Glamour, where she covered women’s issues and politics, and a staff editor at Elle. She lives in New York with her husband.

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