Firestarters

I recently finished reading Firestarters: 100 Job Profiles to Inspire Young Women by Kelly Beatty and Dale Salvaggio Bradshaw. I think it would be a great book to share with readers in a Mother Daughter Book Club. Madeleine, my daughter who is in 11th grade, read it at the same time I did, and we found lots to talk about regarding potential careers to match her interests.

The women profiled in Firestarters have dynamic jobs, and many have changed direction sometime during the course of their careers. They give candid assessments about what a day on the job is like, and they also talk about challenges they face. If your book club takes it on as a selection, each girl could choose three or four of the jobs profiled and talk about what interests her about the work.

The book would also be a great entree for moms to talk about their career pathways. I’ve found that as we all try to get through a busy family schedule every day, parents often don’t share details about the beginning of their careers or the process they went through in deciding what to do after high school graduation.

Firestarters is very accessible too. Each profile is organized the same, making it easy to pick up and read one or two profiles at a time. I had the opportunity to interview the authors about this book for MotherDaughterBookClub.com, and you can click here to read what they say about why they wanted to publish Firestarters and the value it can bring to young women as they consider what they want to do in life.