Celebrate Women’s History Month With These Titles!
Title: Ida B. Wells
By: Diane Bailey
Published: 2019
Presents the life and accomplishments of the activist, educator, writer, journalist, suffragette, and pioneering voice against the horrors of lynching who set out to better the lives of African-Americans long before the Civil Rights Movement.
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Ages 7 -10.
Title: Nothing Stopped Sophie
By: Cheryl Bardoe
Published: 2018
A biography of Sophie Germain, who grew up during the French Revolution and followed her dream of studying mathematics, becoming the first woman to win a grand prize from the Royal Academy of Sciences and changing the world with her discoveries.
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Ages 4 - 8.
Title: Feminist Baby : He's a Feminist Too!
By: Loryn Brantz
Published: 2019
Feminism is for everyone, even boy babies!
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Ages 0 -2
Title: Finish the Fight! The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
By: Veronica Chambers
Published: 2020
This exciting collaboration with the New York Times will reveal the untold stories of the diverse heroines who fought for the 19th amendment.
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Ages 8 - 12.
Title: Counting The Stars: The Story of Katherine Johnson
By: Lesa Cline-Ransome
Published: 2019
The story of Katherine Johnson, an African American mathematician whose work was critical to the first US space flight.
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Ages 4 - 8.
Title: Sharice's Big Voice: A Native Kid Becomes a Congresswoman
By: Sharice Davids
Published: 2021
This picture book autobiography tells the remarkable story of Sharice Davids, one of the first Native American women elected to Congress and the first LGBTQ congressperson to represent Kansas.
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Ages 4 - 8 years.
Title: Sylvia and Marsha Start a Revolution!: The Story of the Trans Women of Color Who Made LGBTQ+ History
By: Joy Ellison
Published: 2021
This illustrated book introduces children to the story of Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, the two transgender women of colour who helped kickstart the Stonewall Riots and dedicated their lives to fighting for LGBTQ+ equality. It introduces children to issues surrounding gender identity and diversity, accompanied by a reading guide and teaching materials to further the conversation.
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Ages 4 - 8.
Title: Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
By: Elena Favilli
Published: 2016
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls reinvents fairy tales, inspiring girls with the stories of 100 heroic women from Elizabeth I to Serena Williams.
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Ages 6 - up.
Title: The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever
By: Joseph H. Hopkins
Published: 2013
Learn about Katherine Olivia Sessions who brought trees to San Diego and created what eventually became Balboa Park.
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Ages 5 - 10.
Title: Unbeatable Betty
By: by Allison Crotzer Kimmel
Published: 2020
A picture-book biography of Betty Robinson, who "at only sixteen years old” became the first female gold medalist in track and field in the 1928 Olympics and an overnight sensation.
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Ages 4 -8.
Title: Women Artists A to Z
By: Melanie LaBarge
Published: 2020
An alphabet picture book featuring famous women artists and their most iconic works.
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Ages 3 - 7.
Title: Franny's Father Is A Feminist
By: Rhonda Leet
Published: 2018
What makes Franny's father a feminist? It's simple, really! He knows that girls can do anything boys can do, and raises Franny to believe that she deserves all the same rights, freedoms, and opportunities that he had.
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Ages 3-7.
Title: I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
By: Debbie Levy
Published: 2016
Traces the achievements of the celebrated Supreme Court justice through the lens of her many famous acts of civil disagreement against inequality, unfair treatment, and human rights injustice.
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Ages 4 - 8.
Title: Girls Who Rocked the World heroines from Joan of Arc to Mother Teresa
By: Michelle Roehm McCann
Published: 2012
Introduces women who, through the ages, have made an impact on the world.
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Ages 8 - 12.
Title: She Did It!: 21 Women Who Changed the Way We Think
By: Emily McCully
Published: 2018
Prepare to discover new heroes among these twenty-one women who challenged the status quo, championed others, and made their voices heard. From Jane Addams to Alice Waters, from groundbreaking artists and social justice advocates to scientific pioneers and business innovators, a strong thread of trailblazing women runs through American history.
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Ages 8 - 12.
Title: I Am Lucille Ball
By: Brad Meltzer
Published: 2015
You want to know the rarest kind of biography for kids out there? Try finding one about a hilarious woman from history. They're almost impossible to find! Thank goodness for Lucille Ball. This bio brings you into Lucy's life and shows why the funny girls deserve to be remembered too.
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Ages 5 - 9.
Title: Power To The Princess
By: Vita Murrow
Published: 2018
What if princesses didn't always marry Prince Charming and live happily every after? This stunning anthology features 15 favorite fairytales retold for a new generation.
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Ages 5 - 8.
Title: Helen's Big World: The Life of Helen Keller
By: Doreen Rappaport
Published: 2012
An illustrated biography of Helen Keller, introducing young readers to her life and legacy, and including quotations by Keller.
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Ages 6 - 8.
Title: Miss Paul and The President: The Creative Campaign for Women's Right to Vote
By: Dean Robbins
Published: 2016
The story of suffragette Alice Paul and her campaign to win women the right to vote.
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Ages 4 - 8.
Title: Suffragette: The Battle for Equality
By: David Roberts
Published: 2019
An illustrated book for young people that celebrates dozens of key suffrage figures from the U.K. and U.S. in portraits and scenes that bring them to life.
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Ages 7 - 10.
Title: So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk To Freedom
By: Gary Schmidt
Published: 2018
A picture-book biography of Sojourner Truth, who "was born into slavery but possessed a mind and a vision that knew no bounds.
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Ages 4 - 8.
Title: Cinderella Liberator
By: Rebecca Solnit
Published: 2019
Instead of waiting to be rescued, Cinderella learns that she can save herself and those around her by being true to herself and standing up for what she believes.
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Ages 7 - 10.
Title: Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
By: Margot Lee Shetterly
Published: 2018
Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes.
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Ages 4 - 8.
Title: My Name is Georgia: A Portrait
By: Jeanette Winter
Published: 1998
Throughout her life Georgia O'Keeffe followed her dreams--and so found her way to become a great American artist.
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Ages 4 - 7.
Title: The Prettiest
By: Brigit Young
Published: 2020
When a list appears online ranking the top fifty prettiest girls in the eighth grade, everything turns upside down. Three girls band together to find out who made the list but their journey doesn't lead them where they expect.
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Ages 8 - 12.
Title: Princesas que cambiaron el cuento
By: Virginia Mosquera
Published: 2018
Una fascinante colección de historias de mujeres talentosas, mágicas y libres que se atrevieron a cambiar el cuento. Las princesas de este libro no son como las demás. Son princesas como tú, que no nacieron, se fueron haciendo por el camino.
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Ages 7 - 10.
Title: ¿Qué hacen las mamás? : ¿qué hacen los papás?
By: Irene Biemmi
Published: 2019
¡Nunca es demasiado pronto para hablar con los niños sobre cosas serias! Porque una verdadera "buena educación" que hable no sólo de reglas, sino tambien de emotividad, de lucha contra los prejuicios y de rotura de estéreotipos insidiosos como los de género debe comenzar ... lo antes posible!
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Ages 5 - 6.
Title: Los Superhéroes están en todas partes
By: Kamala Harris
Published: 2019
Los había en su familia, entre sus amigos, incluso en su misma calle; los superhéroes estaban dondequiera que ella miraba.
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Ages 4 - 8.
Title: Sonia Sotomayor La Juez que creció en el Bronx
By: Jonah Winter
Published: 2009
Antes de que la magistrada de la Corte Suprema Sonia Sotomayor llegara al máximo tribunal de nuestra nación, no era más que una niñita en el South Bronx.
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Ages 4 - 8.
Title: Me llamo Celia: La Vida de Celia Cruz
By: Monica Brown
Published: 2004
Este libro apasionante, intenso y colorido narra la vida de Celia Cruz con una fidelidad extrema al carácter, el entusiasmo y la desbordante vitalidad de la célebre artista de origen cubano.
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Ages 5 - 8.
Title: The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps
By: Narrated by Susie Berneis
Published: 2015
This is Jane Goodall, the great observer of chimpanzees. Follow Jane from her childhood in London watching a robin on her windowsill, to her years in the African forests of Gombe, Tanzania, invited by brilliant scientist Louis Leakey to observe chimps, to her worldwide crusade to save these primates who are now in danger of extinction, and their habitat.
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