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Think Big, Little One
Vashti Harrison
Featuringeighteenwomencreators,ranging fromwriterstoinventors,artiststoscientists, thisboardbookadaptationofLittleDreamers: VisionaryWomenAroundtheWorldintroduces trailblazingwomen
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
Margarita Engle
FollowsayoungCubangirlinthe1930sas shestrivestobecomeadrummer,despite beingcontinuallyremindedthatonlyboys playthedrums,andthatthere'sneverbeen afemaledrummerinCubaIncludesnote aboutMilloCastroZaldarriaga,whoinspired thestory,andAnacaona,theall-girldance bandsheformedwithhersisters
Mary Wears What She Wants
Keith Negley
Onceuponatime(butnottoolongago),girls onlyworedresses.Andonlyboysworepants. Untiloneday,ayounggirlnamedMaryhada boldidea:Shewouldwearwhatevershe wantedAndshewantedtowearpants! InspiredbythetruestoryofMaryEdwards Walker,atrailblazingdoctorwhowasarrested manytimesforwearingpants
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight For Their Rights
Mikki Kendall
Afeministcomicbookhistoryofwomen's rights,fromtheancientworldtomodern times,inagiftable,visuallystunning package
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Send a Girl!: The True Story of How Women Joined the FDNY
Jessica M. Rinker
Thisdynamicandinspiringpicturebook biographytellsthestoryofBrendaBerkman, thewomanwhobrokeanimportantbarrierby becomingoneofthefirstfemalefirefighters inNewYorkCity.
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Shirley Chishold Dared: The Story of the First Black Woman in Congress
Alicia D. Williams
Discovertheinspiringstoryofthefirstblack womanelectedtoCongressandtorunfor presidentinthispicturebookbiographyfrom aNewberyHonor-winningauthoranda CorettaScottKing-JohnSteptoeNewTalent Award-winningillustrator
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What is the Women's Rights Movement?
Deborah Hopkinson
Chronicles the women's rights movement in the United States, from the beginning of the movement in the nineteenth century and the fight for equal rights in the 1960s to such present-day events as the Women's March in 2017
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Women in the Civil Rights Movement
Kesha Grant
After decades of segregation, women were at the forefront of the civil rights movement, the largest social upheaval since the end of the Civil War Alongside men, they were leaders, planners, organizers, and protesters.
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J796.082 MACY,S Finish the Fight!
Veronica Chambers & the Staff of the New York Times
Whowasattheforefrontofwomen'srightto vote?Weknowafewfamousnamesbutwhat aboutsomanyothersfromdiverse backgrounds--Black,Asian,Latinx,Native American,andmore--whohelpedleadthe fightforsuffrage?Onthehundredth anniversaryofthehistoricwin,it'stimeto celebratethenamesandstoriesofthewomen whosestorieshaveyettobetold.
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She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed
Chelsea Clinton
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Profilesthelivesofthirteenwomenwhohave lefttheirmarkonworldhistory,including CarolineHerschel,MarieCurie,Mary Verghese,andMalalaYousafzai
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Breaking Through: How Female Athletes Shattered Stereotypes in the Roaring Twenties
Sue Macy
Award-winningauthorSueMacyoffersa freshandtimelyaccountofwomeninsports inthe1920s,andhowtheirdetermination, talent,anddefianceinthefaceofcriticism promotedwomen'srights,redefined femininity,andchangedthecourseofhistory
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women
Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo
GoodNightStoriesforRebelGirlsreinvents fairytales,inspiringgirlswiththestoriesof 100heroicwomenfromElizabethItoSerena WilliamsIllustratedby60femaleartistsfrom everycorneroftheglobe
Rad Women Worldwide
Kate Schatz
FromtheauthorsoftheNewYorkTimes bestsellingbookRadAmericanWomenA-Z, comesaboldnewcollectionof40biographical profiles,eachaccompaniedbyastriking illustratedportrait,showcasingextraordinary womenfromaroundtheworld.
Eyewitness to the Role of Women in World War II
Jill Sherman
Throughnarrativenonfiction,tellsabout numerousrolesofwomenduringthewar, includingasspies,armynurses,factory workers,andpilots
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