What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K Arnold was the 16th book in my 2022 #FReadom quest to read books that have been threatened or removed from Texas libraries and schools. As dads, we should fight for our daughters' access to meaningful stories like this. elanakarnold.com/book/what-girls-made/

After the horrific paroxysms of toxic masculinity Texas saw this week in Uvalde, there's no justifying telling kids to avert their eyes from the images of martyrs, virgins, saints, and realities of female growing up that Arnold captures in Nina's deeply truthful voice.