Young World Books — Where Today’s Youth Become Tomorrow’s Visionaries
We encourage innovation, leadership, and bold thinking while helping people rise and become tomorrow’s world‑changers.
YoungWorldBooks Publishing
YoungWorldBooks Publishing
Young World Books was founded by Shahid Shawn Farrakhan, a published author whose work challenges young people to examine their choices and envision a stronger future. His books, including Am I Criminal Minded or Criminal Minded by Circumstances?, are available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble and have become powerful tools for reflection, accountability, and growth. Farrakhan continues expanding his message with his upcoming book, Overcoming Impoverished Thinking to Wealth While Incarcerated, a transformative blueprint drawn from lived experience and mental elevation. Through Young World Books, his mission is to inspire and enlighten the next generation—especially youth who may be drifting or on the wrong track—by providing stories, lessons, and guidance that spark innovation, leadership, and revolutionary thinking. Our purpose is to help young minds rethink their direction, rise with purpose, and become the innovators and world‑changers of tomorrow.
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A raw memoir of growing up in the East Side streets of Hot Springs, where poverty, fatherlessness, and survival shaped a criminal mindset — and the journey of self‑discovery that proved it wasn’t nature, but circumstance.
This is a concise, powerful reflection on how a man transformed poverty‑conditioned survival thinking into a disciplined wealth mindset while serving decades inside Arkansas’ largest prison farm. Through raw storytelling and hard‑earned insight, the book shows how mental confinement—not physical walls—is what keeps people trapped, and how self‑education, confidence, and long‑term vision can rebuil