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Corey, Shana. Players in Pigtails. Katie The House that Jane Built: A Story about Casey, a fictional character, helps start the . 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 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 . formed with her . 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 : 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 's Dreams on a motorcycle. Took Flight. : Artist-Architect of Light and Lines, Designer of the Vietnam Veterans Henson, Heather. That Book . A 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 . 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 (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: 's the Brooklyn Bridge. nineteenth century: groundbreaking fossil Journey to Justice. (Graphic Novel) scientist Mary Anning. I am . (Graphic Novel) The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story Negley, Keith. Mary Wears What She Wants. of Dr. . : 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: 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: . I am . (Graphic Novel) Inspired by the true story of , a trailblazing 19th-century doctor The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Gloria Takes a Stand. (STEINEM) who was arrested many times for wearing Faye Hendricks. pants. Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells: The Daring : A Hero to Migrant Workers. Life of a Crusading Journalist. Theule, Larissa. Born to Ride: A Story about Bicycle Face. In Rochester, New York, in Mae Among the Stars. (JEMISON) Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung 1896, Louisa Belinda Bellflower defies Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom. convention and ignores her 's A Computer called Katherine: How (WU) warnings by learning to ride a bicycle. Katherine Johnson Helped put America on Includes a history of bicycling and its the Moon. Malala’s Magic Pencil. (YOUSAFZAI) connection to the women's rights movement.

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