Learn the tales of Irish faerie folk in The Faerie Isle: Tales and Traditions of Ireland’s Forgotten Folklore, by Síne Quinn and Dermot Flynn.
Browsing: Celebrating Diversity
The Five Sides of Marjorie Rice: How to Discover a Shape, by Amy Alznauer and Anna Bro, explores art and geometry through the life and lens of an amateur mathematician.
Learn the story of how one woman used children’s books to help heal a generation of Germany’s children after WWII Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams.
Meet Lorena Ramírez, an Indigenous Rarámuri athlete from Mexico known for winning ultramarathons in her traditional skirts and rubber sandals, in Daughter of the Light-Footed People.
Learn about the first woman student at MIT—a pioneering environmental chemist — in The Girl Who Tested the Waters: Ellen Swallow, Environmental Scientist, by Patricia Daniele and Junyi Wu.
A girl is pulled into a mysterious treasure hunt at her new boarding school in A Study in Secrets, the first book in a new series by Debbi Michiko Florence.
Learn the about the women who blazed a path forward for everyone The ABCs of Women’s History, by Rio Cortez and Lauren Semmer.
Learn the story of the first American woman to fly to space in I am Sally Ride, the 35th hero in the Ordinary People Change the World series by Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos.
Learn the story of a Native-led movement that saw the successful removal of four dams in I Love Salmon and Lampreys: A Native Story of Resilience, by Brook M. Thompson and Anastasia Khmelevska.
Learn how a small Seder dinner on the campaign trail inspired a White House tradition in Next Year in the White House: Barack Obama’s First Presidential Seder, by Richard Michelson and E.B. Lewis.