
March is Women’s History Month, a time to reflect on the struggles and accomplishments women made throughout history, and to read stories depicting female empowerment.
Anthologies
Rad American Women A-Z by Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl
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Little Book of Feminist Saints by Julia Pierpont
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Artists, Creators, and Musicians
Bon Appetit! The Delicious life of Julia Child by Jessie Hartland
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Dancing Hands: how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln by Margarita Engle and Rafael López
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Ella Fitzgerald: the Tale of a vocal virtuosa by Andrea Davis Pinkney
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Frida by Jonah Winter
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Harlem’s Little Blackbird by Renée Watson
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Hot Pink: the life and fashions of Elsa Schiaparelli by Susan Goldman Rubin
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Imogen by Amy Novesky
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Lily Renée, escape artist: from Holocaust survivor to comic book pioneer by Trina Robbins
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Through Georgia’s Eyes by Rachel Rodriguez
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Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the power of a protest Song by Gary Golio
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You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer!: a very improper story by Shana Corey and Chesley McLaren
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Social Justice and Civil Rights Activists
Being Jazz by Jazz Jennings
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Clara Barton by Kathleen Deady (nurse/red cross)
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Fight of the Century: Alice Paul battles Woodrow Wilson for the vote by Barb Rosenstock and Sarah Green
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History Smashers: Women’s Right to Vote by Kate Messner
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I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
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Lift As You Climb: the story of Ella Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell and R. Gregory Christie (soon to be on order)
Noisemakers: 25 women who raised their voices and changed the world – a graphic collection from Kazoo edited by Erin Bried
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Only Passing through: the story of Sojourner Truth by Anne F. Rockwell
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On Our Way to Oyster Bay: Mother Jones and her march for children’s rights by Monica Kulling and Felicita Sala
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Red Scarf Girl: a memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang
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Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer by Carole Boston Weatherford
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Women’s Suffrage Kids Books
Politicians and Judges
Eleanor Roosevelt Fighter for Justice by Ilene Cooper
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Elizabeth Warren: Nevertheless, She Persisted by Susan Wood
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I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes her mark by Debbie Levy and Elizabeth Baddeley
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Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice by Nikki Grimes
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Jonah Winter
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The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor by Sonia Sotomayor
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What do you do with a voice like that? by Chris Barton
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Inventors, Scientists, and Mathematicians
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
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Nothing Stopped Sophie: the story of unshakable mathematician Sophie Germain by Cheryl Bardoe and Barbara McClintock
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Temple Grandin by Sy Montgomery
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Marie Curie by Leonard Everett Fisher
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Marvelous Mattie: how Margaret E. Knight became an inventor by Emily Arnold McCully
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Sally Ride: a photo biography of America’s pioneering women in Space by Tam E. O’Shaughnessy
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The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s life with the chimps by Jeanette Winter
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Dancers, Athletes and Aviators
Amelia Lost by Candace Fleming
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Breaking Through: how female athletes shattered stereotypes in the roaring twenties by Sue Macy and Muffet McGraw
(soon to be on order)
Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams by Lesa Cline-Ransome
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Proud: Living My American Dream by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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Rising Above: Inspiring Women in Sports by Gregory Zuckerman
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Talkin’ ’bout Bessie: the story of aviator Bessie Coleman by Nikki Grimes
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Tallchief: America’s Prima Ballerina by Maria Tallchief and Rosemary Wells and Gary Kelley
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Tillie the Terrible Swede: how one woman, a sewing needle, and a bicycle changed history by Sue Stauffacher and Sarah McMenemy
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Strong Female Stories in YA
Audacity by Melanie Crowder
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Because I Was a Girl by Melissa De la Cruz
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Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy
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Girls Write Now: Two Decades of True Stories from Young Female Voices
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I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez
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Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
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Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson
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A Tyranny of Petticoats: 15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers & Other Badass Girls by Jessica Spotswood
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Watch Us Rise by Renée Watson
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