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Women's History Reading List Women's History oppl.org/kids-lists Picture Books Biographies Corey, Shana. Players in Pigtails. Katie The House that Jane Built: A Story about Casey, a fictional character, helps start the Jane Addams. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which gave women the opportunity Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. to play professional baseball while America was involved in World War II. Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen. Engle, Margarita. The Drum Dream Girl. A Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine young girl in the 1920s strives to become a Baker. drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and Patricia’s Vision: The Doctor Who Saved that there has never been a female drummer Sight. (BATH) in Cuba. Includes a note about Millo Castro What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?: Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and The Important Thing about Margaret Wise The Story of Extraordinary Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she Brown. Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. formed with her sisters. Shirley Chisolm is a Verb! Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos. Gill, Joel Christian. Fast Enough: Bessie Stringfield's First Ride. An imagined story of Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Dorothea Lange: The Photographer Who Bessie Stringfield as a young girl combined Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Found the Faces of the Depression. with historical facts about the real Bessie, a Scientist. true adventurer and one of the first African- The Fearless Flights of Hazel Ying Lee. American women to travel solo across the Flying free: How Bessie Coleman's Dreams United States on a motorcycle. Took Flight. Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines, Designer of the Vietnam Veterans Henson, Heather. That Book Woman. A family Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Memorial. living in the Appalachian Mountains in the Elizabeth Cotten. 1930s gets books to read during the regular Here Come the Girl Scouts! The Amazing visits of the "Book Woman"--a librarian who Marie Curie. All-true Story of Juliette "Daisy" Gordon rides a pack horse through the mountains, Low and Her Great Adventure. lending books to the isolated residents. On Wings of Words: The Extraordinary Life of Emily Dickinson. Wilma’s Way Home: The Life of Wilma McNamara, Margaret. The Dinosaur Expert. Mankiller. Future scientist Kimmy eagerly shares Fearless Mary: Mary Fields, American information about dinosaurs during a school Stagecoach Driver. Anybody's Game: Kathryn Johnston, The field trip until classmate Jake tells her "girls First Girl to Play Little League Baseball. aren't scientists." An appended two-page Girl Running: Bobbi Gibbs and the Boston (MASSAR) section features Kimmy's favorite Marathon. paleontologists, six women currently Secret Engineer: How Emily Robeling Built working in the field and one girl from the Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's the Brooklyn Bridge. nineteenth century: groundbreaking fossil Journey to Justice. (Graphic Novel) scientist Mary Anning. I am Sacagawea. (Graphic Novel) The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story Negley, Keith. Mary Wears What She Wants. of Dr. Temple Grandin. Selena: Queen of Tejano Music. (SELENA) Once upon a time (but not that long ago), girls only wore dresses. And only boys wore The World is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Nina: Jazz Legend and Civil-Rights pants. Until one day, a young girl named Architect Zaha Hadid. Activist Nina Simone. Mary had an idea: She would wear whatever she wanted. And she wanted to wear pants! Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer. I am Sonia Sotomayor. 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