The Six —Young Readers Edition: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts, by Loren Grush and Rebecca Stefoff, explores America’s first women in space.
Browsing: women’s history
Meet three women who followed their scientific dreams in Green Promises: Girls Who Loved the Earth, by Jeannine Atkins.
Learn about one of the most accomplished tennis players in history in The Story of Serena Williams, by Shadae B. Mallory and Tequitia Andrews.
GO, WILMA, GO!: WILMA RUDOLPH, FROM ATHLETE TO ACTIVIST, by Amira Rose Davis, Michael G. Long, Charnelle Pinkney Barlow, Bloomsbury Children’s Books,…
A girl speaks out against a problematic historical hometown figure in Tear This Down, a middle-grade novel by Barbara Dee.
Ruby Bridges, shares the tale of reuniting with the first-grade teacher who changed her life in Ruby Bridges: A Talk with My Teacher.
The Poet and the Bees, by Amy Novesky and Jessica Love, was inspired by the Poet Sylvia Plath and the seasons she kept bees.
Learn about black fashion icon and design pioneer Zelda Wynn Valdes in Dazzling Zelda, a picture book biography by Aura Lewis and Farai Simoyi.
Alice Hoffman’s When We Flew Away follows Anne Frank’s life from the moment the Nazis invaded the Netherlands until the Frank family was forced into hiding.
Learn the story of Puerto Rico’s first female mayor in Doña Fela’s Dream, written by Monica Brown and illustrated Rosa Ibarra.