Adler, David
A PICTURE BOOK OF SOJOURNER TRUTH 4 - 8
A PICTURE BOOK OF ANNE FRANK
A PICTURE BOOK OF ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
A PICTURE BOOK OF HELEN KELLER
A PICTURE BOOK OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
A PICTURE BOOK OF SACAGAWEA   [See History for biography and more on Lewis and Clark]

Alexander, Sally Hobart and Robert Alexander
SHE TOUCHED THE WORLD: LAURA BRIDGMAN, DEAF-BLIND PIONEER - Ages 10-12 - When she was just two years old, Laura Bridgman lost her sight, her hearing, and most of her senses of smell and taste. At the time, no one believed a child with such severe disabilities could be taught to communicate, much less lead a full and productive life. But then a progressive doctor, who had just opened the countrys first school for the blind in Boston, took her in. Laura learned to communicate, read, and writeand eventually even to teach. By the age of 12, she was world famous. Audiences flocked to see her, and she was loved and admired by children everywhere. This fascinating and moving biography shows how Laura Bridgman paved the way for future generations of children with disabilities, making possible important advances in the way they would be educated. As a blind person with some hearing loss, Sally Hobart Alexander lends a unique and intimate perspective to this inspiring account. At last, the story of Laura Bridgman can find its long-deserved place alongside those of Louis Braille and Helen Keller. Authors note, source notes, bibliography, index.

Appelt, Kathi
MISS LADY BIRD'S WILDFLOWERS: How a First Lady Changed America [Bio: Lady Bird Johnson]

Ashby, Ruth, Deborah Gore Ohrn
HERSTORY: WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD - 120 biographical sketches of famous and little known women and the forces that shaped their lives.

Atkins, Jeannine
MARY ANNING AND THE SEA DRAGON - Ages 4-8. The girl who found the first sea reptile fossil.
WINGS AND ROCKETS: THE STORY OF WOMEN IN AIR AND SPACE (ages 10-14)
HOW HIGH CAN WE CLIMB?: THE STORY OF WOMEN EXPLORERS (Ages 10-13) [tales of sailors, cavers, mountain climbers, deep-sea divers, and other explorers]

Bauermeister, Erica
LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE GIRLS: 375 GREAT BOOKS FOR READERS 2-14

Bausum, Ann
WITH COURAGE AND CLOTH: WINNING THE FIGHT FOR A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO VOTE (Ages: 12 Up)
When Alice Paul helped design the banners for the National Woman's Party, she suggested three colors: Purple for justice, white for purity of purpose, and gold for courage. Bearing these standards, women took to the streets in parades and picket lines to fight for the cause they passionately believed in: that American women should be allowed to vote.
It may be hard now to believe that there was ever a day in the United States when women weren't allowed to vote. But winning this right was part of a 72-year struggle on the part of thousands of women that finally culminated with the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Ann Bausum gets inside this gripping story with an overview of the larger fight for women's voting rights, from Seneca Falls to state-by-state ballot battles. But it's her special focus on the less well-known story of Alice Paul and her band of unstoppable soldiers for suffrage that makes With Courage and Cloth a real page turner.
--National Geographic 2004

Belton, Sandra
PICTURES FOR MISS JOSIE - Ages 6-10. Celebration of the life of Josephine Carroll Smith, a respected African-American educator responsible for outlining the boundaries for the integration of Washington D.C.

Bolden, Tonya
AND NOT AFRAID TO DARE: THE STORIES OF TEN AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN 9 - 12 - Each story is moving, compelling and an inspiration and role model for our children today. The women featured are: Ellen Craft, Escaped Slave; Charlotte Forten Grimk‚ Teacher; Mary Fields, Pioneer; Ida B. Wells, Journalist; Mary McLeod Bethune, Educator; Clara Hale, Humanitarian; Leontyne Price, Opera Singer; Toni Morrison, Writer; Mae C. Jemison, Astronaut and Jackie Joyner- Kersee, Athlete.

Blair, Margaret Whitman
THE ROARING 20: THE FIRST CROSS-COUNTRY AIR RACE FOR WOMEN [The dramatic true story of the twenty aviatrixes who set off on the first Women's Cross-Country Air Derby. Readers will thrill to the feats of "the roaring twenty," the daredevil pilots who pioneered women's aviation in this 2800-mile race from Santa Monica, California, to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1929.] 10-14 (2006)

Blumenthal, Karen
LET ME PLAY; THE STORY OF TITLE IX, The Law that changed the future of girls in America - Ages 11 Up
Can girls play softball? Can girls be school crossing guards? Can girls play basketball or ice hockey or soccer? Can girls become lawyers or doctors or engineers? Of course they can... today. But just a few decades ago, opportunities for girls were far more limited, not because they weren't capable of playing or didn't want to become doctors or lawyers, but because they weren't allowed to. Then quietly, in 1972, something momentous happened: Congress passed a law called "Title IX," forever changing the lives of American girls.

Borden, Louise and Mary Kay Kroeger
FLY HIGH! THE STORY OF BESSIE COLEMAN 9-12
Besse Coleman was born in rural Texas in 1892. She loved school, especially learning about numbers, and she was a good reader, too. Yet when it was time to pick cotton she had to work in the fields instead of going to school. Nevertheless, she was determined to be somebody when she grew up.

In her early twenties, Bessie moved to Chicago. Perhaps there she could "find a bigger life." In the city, Bessie heard many tales of World War I from returned veterans. She also heard there were woman airplane pilots in France. From then on, she was determined to become a pilot. But she soon found out that no one would teach a woman -- especially a woman with dark skin -- how to fly. To study in France was her only chance, and by working hard and saving her money, she managed at last to get there. Bessie Coleman became the first African-American to earn a pilot's license. She was somebody.

Bridges, Ruby
THROUGH MY EYES - Bridges personally recounts her first grade experience as she is escorted by federal marshals; her feeling of being isolated; cruel jeers, racial slurs and death threats; the courage, struggles and support of her family; her student/teacher relationship and the Foundation she created to give back to her community.

Brown, Don
A VOICE FROM THE WILDERNESS: THE STORY OF ANNA HOWARD SHAW - Ages 5-8 [Learn More]

Bundles, A'Lelia
ON HER OWN GROUND : THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MADAM C.J. WALKER - Ages YA Up

Butts, Ed
SHE DARED: True Stories of Heroines, Scoundrels, and Renegades (Ages 10 Up) [Fifteen women who surprised the world-for better or for worse.

Casey, Susan
WOMEN INVENT : TWO CENTURIES OF DISCOVERIES THAT HAVE SHAPED OUR WORLD 9 - 12. Stories of women inventors take the reader on a step-by-step journey through the process of inventing. Women inventors whose ideas have made work easier include Sybilla Masters, who gained an English patent in 1715 for a mill to grind corn, and Josephine Cochran of Illinois who invented the dishwashing machine in 1886, Magdalena Villaruz, a farmer in the Philippines who in 1976 invented a tractor to till rice paddies and more. This book acts as a resource guide as well for contests, international organizations, camps and books.

Chang, Ina
A SEPARATE BATTLE : WOMEN AND THE CIVIL WAR 9-12
Stirring vignettes from such notables as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman, Soujourner Truth, and Louisa May Alcott, as well as portraits of lesser known but equally courageous individuals.

Chin-Lee, Cynthia
AMELIA TO ZORA: 26 WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD - 9-12 - Twenty-six amazing women--twenty-six amazing stories. From Amelia Earhart, pilot and adventurer, to Zora Neal Hurston, writer and anthropologist, learn about the hardships and triumphs that inspired each woman to change the world around her. Detailed collages and illustrations draw from various events in the women's lives. Highly recommend for the diversity of women chosen.

Clinton, Susan Maloney
FIRST LADIES (Cornerstones Of Freedom) 9 - 12

Colman, Penny
GIRLS: A HISTORY OF GROWING UP FEMALE IN AMERICA

Cooney, Barbara
ELEANOR (Eleanor Roosevelt) 4-8
EMILY (Emily Dickinson) 4-8
EMMA (Emma Stern, Artist) 4-8

Corey, Shana
YOU FORGOT YOUR SKIRT, AMELIA BLOOMER! Ages 4-8

Cummins, Julie
TOMBOY OF THE AIR: Daredevil Pilot Blanche Stuart Scott Ages 8-14
She was the first female to drive an automobile from New York to San Francisco without assistance. She was the first female pilot in the United States, and made the first public flight by a woman in the United States. She performed the lead role in the first silent movie about flying, "The Aviator's Bride." She was the first woman stunt flier.

Danneberg, Julie
AMIDST THE GOLD DUST - Ages 9 Up - Individual biographies in diary format ("creative nonfiction") of Isabella Bird, Margaret Brown, ("unsinkable Molly Brown"), Clara Brown, Nellie Cashman, and Sarah Winnemucca, all of whom appear very different and share a common thread of courage, hardship and perseverance.

Delano, Marfe Ferguson
Helen's Eyes: A Photobiography of Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller's Teacher - Ages 12 up - This is the inspiring photobiography of Anne Mansfield Sullivan, a woman born into a life of daunting disadvantage and social obstacle. She grew up poor, with little education, the child of struggling Irish immigrants. By the age of eight, Annie was almost blind because of untreated trachoma. Following her mother’s death, the young girl entered an almshouse, where she spent four years among the most wretched of society’s outcasts. Her inquiring intellect and determination helped her escape this bleak detention, and she was sent to the Perkins School for the Blind.

Ehrlich, Amy
RACHEL: THE STORY OF RACHEL CARSON - Ages 6-8

Faust, Drew Gilpin
MOTHERS OF INVENTION : WOMEN OF THE SLAVEHOLDING SOUTH IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - YA/Adult

Felder, Deborah G.
THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN OF ALL TIME: A RANKING PAST AND PRESENT - Young Adult/Adult
Who's #1? Eleanor Roosevelt ! Bravo !!! Others in this wonderful book: Lucy, Golda Meir, Joan of Arc, Harriet Tubman, Marie Curie, Susan B. Anthony, Georgia O'Keeffe, Rosa Parks, and so very many more as well as a list of honorable mentions. Every school library should consider this addition.

Fox, Mary V.
THE STORY OF WOMEN WHO SHAPED THE WEST (Cornerstones of Freedom Series) 9 - 12. Influential women who endured hardships, lead by example, endured hardships, support husbands, fought for equal rights. Easy to read, photos and paintings of the period.

Fradin, Judith Bloom and Dennis Brindell Fradin
IDA B. WELLS: MOTHER OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT - Ages 12 Up [Learn more]
FIGHT ON!: Mary Church Terrell's Battle for Integration [Co-founder of NAACP/fought for rights and justice for all/against lynching/woman's right to vote/first black judge for the District of Columbia/writer/teacher] [Bio] [Mary Church Terrell House]
JANE ADDAMS: CHAMPION OF DEMOCRACY - Ages 10-14 - Most people know Jane Addams (1860-1935) as the force behind Hull House, one of the first settlement houses in the United States. She was also an ardent suffragist and civil rights activist, co-founding the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the American Civil Liberties Union. But it was her work as a pacifist that put her in the international spotlight. Although many people labeled her “unpatriotic” for her pacifist activities, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 and, at the time of her death, Jane Addams was one of the most respected and admired women in the world.

Frank, Anne
ANNE FRANK: DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL 9-12 Her story.

Freedman, Russell
THE VOICE THAT CHALLENGED A NATION: MARIAN ANDERSON AND THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUAL RIGHTS
Carefully researched, expertly told, and profusely illustrated with contemporary photographs, here is a moving account of the life of a talented and determined artist who left her mark on musical and social history. Through her story, one of today's leading authors of nonfiction for young readers illuminates the social and political climate of the day and an important chapter in American history. Notes, bibliography, discography, index.

Furbee, Mary Rodd
OUTRAGEOUS WOMEN OF COLONIAL AMERICA - Ages 9-12 [Learn More]

Gorrell, Gena K.
HEART AND SOUL: THE STORY OF FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE (Ages 10-14)

Greenwood, Barbara
FACTORY GIRL - Ages 9-12 - the fictional story of Emily Watson with factual accounts of the people and events surrounding the urban poor in North American cities in the early 1900s. Child labour was eventually abolished in North America.

Grimes, Nikki
TALKIN' ABOUT BESSIE: THE STORY OF AVIATOR ELIZABETH COLEMAN - Ages 9 Up - Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman (1892-1926), grew up in the segregated South, overcame the obstacles of poverty, racism and gender discrimination to become the first African-American female pilot. This book is told as a series of imagined and interesting monologues with rich watercolor illustrations by E. B. Lewis. [Learn more about Bessie Coleman]

Hansen, Joyce
AFRICAN PRINCESS: THE AMAZING LIVES OF AFRICA'S ROYAL WOMEN - Ages: 9-12
What was it like to live as a queen in ancient Egypt, or as an Amazon warrior in western Africa? African Princess tells the stories of six remarkable royal women and the eras in which they lived, from 1473 B.C. to the present. Some lived in great luxury; others lived in exile as freedom fighters. The rise of the slave trade and the arrival of European colonists unsettled the entire continent and forced rulers to find ways to govern and protect their kingdoms. Consequently, many of these royal women ruled in extremely difficult times, marked by palace intrigue, foreign invasion, and harrowing adventure.
WOMEN OF HOPE - Ages 8 and Up
Features photographs and biographies of thirteen African-American women, including Maya Angelou, Ruby Dee, and Alice Walker.

Harness, Cheryl
REMEMBER THE LADIES: 100 GREAT AMERICAN WOMEN - Ages 8-12.
Cheryl Harness briefly introduces readers to 100 distinguished American women. From Virginia Dare, the first English child born in America to Maya Ying Lin the architect of the Vietnam Memorial to Oprah Winfrey, Grace Hopper (math genius and cyber-language inventor) to Madeleine Albright.

Higgins, Helen Boyd
JULIETTE LOW, Girl Scout Founder

Hopkinson, Deborah
GIRL WONDER: A BASEBALL STORY IN NINE INNINGS - Ages 6-9
I must have been born to play baseball, because Pop says I was only two when I hurled a corncob at an old tomcat chasing my favorite hen.
Dr. Alta Weiss was born and is buried in Berlin, Ohio. She grew up, played baseball on an all-male team, practiced medicine and retired in Ohio. She put herself through medical school (the only female in her class to graduate with a medical degree) with money she earned playing ball. Exception, eccentric, played ball in a skirt…and one of Ohio's Heroes. [Learn More: Baseball Historians   Women in Baseball]

Howe, Jane Moore
AMELIA EARHART: YOUNG AIR PIONEER 9-12
Did you know that Amelia Earhart built a roller coaster, rescued neighbors from an angry dog, narrowly averted a high-speed sledding disaster---and all before she graduated from eighth grade? Originally published in 1950, the author, Jane Moore Howe corresponded with Miss Earhart's sister, Muriel, in the course of researching and writing this book in 1949.

Kalam, Bobbie
19TH CENTURY GIRLS & WOMEN: HISTORIC COMMUNITIES- - 9-12
Describes various aspects of the lives of women and girls during the nineteenth century, including their lack of educational opportunities, restrictive clothing, pastimes, courtship and marriage, and limited employment prospects.

Kamma, Anne
IF YOU LIVED WHEN WOMEN WON THEIR RIGHTS (Ages 7-10) - There was a time that girls and women in the United States could not: wear pants; play sports on a team; ride a bicycle; or go to college. In question-and-answer format, this history series tells the exciting story of how women worked to get equal rights with men, culminating in the 19th amendment to the Constitution and giving women the right to vote. Meet the pioneering figures in the movement, including Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, and Alice Paul.

Kent, Deborah
DOROTHY DAY: FRIEND TO THE FORGOTTEN - YA - Biography of Dorothy Day (1897-1980), founder and leader of the Catholic Worker movement.

Ketchum, Liza
INTO A NEW COUNTRY: EIGHT REMARKABLE WOMEN OF THE WEST - Susan Shelby Magoffin (Santa Fe Trail), Lotta Crabtree (Performer), Bridget"Biddy" Mason (born a slave and became wealthy), Bethenia Owens-Adair (First Woman Physician in Pacific NW), Susan and Susette LaFlesche (Omaha Indian sisters/Injustice), Mary McGladery Tape (rights of Asian women), Katherine Ryan (a legend in the Klondike).

Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody
LADIES FIRST: 40 DARING WOMAN WHO WERE SECOND TO NONE - Ages 10 and Up. Ladies First introduces young readers to 40 American women of achievement who were first in their field. A full-page portrait begins each informative three-page profile. The life stories of these women are as inspiring as they are diverse.
The book provides a vital starting point for report writers and researchers, and a rich source of information for fact lovers of all ages.
Who was the first woman to row across the Atlantic? Or to swim the English Channel? Or to graduate from medical school? Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize? And the first to win a Nobel Prize for Literature? Who was the first female African-American self-made millionaire? And the first African-American Poet Laureate? Which American woman became the first to win three gold medals at a single Olympics? Who was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest? Who was New York's first female firefighter? And who was the first woman to command a U.S. Navy warship?

Kirkpatrick, Katherine
THE SNOW BABY: THE ARCTIC CHILDHOOD OF ROBERT E. PEARY'S DARING DAUGHTER - Ages 9-12

Krensky, Stephen
SHOOTING FOR THE MOON: The Amazing Life and Times of Annie Oakley - 5-8. Picturebook biography based on Annie Oakley's own writings.
[Annie Oakley Foundation - Photos, Film Clips, Tall Tales and Truths]

Krull, Kathleen
LIVES OF EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN: Rulers, Rebels (And What the Neighbors Thought) Ages 8-12. Twenty brief biographies of women (queens, warriors, prime ministers, first ladies, revolutionary leaders) who have wielded power, their fears and lives.
HOW WILMA RUDOLPH BECAME THE WORLD'S FASTEST WOMAN - Ages 9-12 [Interview]
A WOMAN FOR PRESIDENT: THE STORY OF VICTORIA WOODHULL - Ages 8-10 - Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to do many things: the first woman to own a newspaper, to speak before Congress, and to have a seat on the stock exchange. But her boldest act was announcing herself as the first female candidate for the presidency of the United States in 1872—before women even had the right to vote.
Arguably one of the most revolutionary women in American history, she was many years ahead of her time, braking boundaries. But her presidential campaign, and the backlash it sparked, left her in political ruin and bankruptcy. Amazingly, her name has been practically erased from history.

Love, D. Anne
OF NUMBERS AND STARS: THE STORY OF HYPATIA - Ages 6-8 - illustrated biography of the first woman mathematician, mostly for teachers and younger readers but if you’ve always wondered what life was like for a female scholar and teacher in ancient Egypt almost 2,000 years ago.

Macy, Sue
BULL'S-EYE: A PHOTOBIOGRAPHY OF ANNIE OAKLEY (Ages 10 and Up) - Sharpshooter Annie Oakley, a beloved icon of American history, comes to life for a new generation. Born in the backwoods of Ohio, this remarkable woman overcame poverty and abuse to achieve worldwide fame as a daring performer and markswoman. Traveling with Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West show, Annie delighted audiences throughout the U.S. and Europe with her target shooting, trick shots, and horseback riding stunts. Combines lively text, historical photos, and original quotes from Annie herself.

Marx, Trish
JEANNETTE RANKIN: FIRST LADY OF CONGRESS (Ages 8-11) - "I've been trying to help women have better lives, using the laws we already have. But what if the laws are wrong, or don't go far enough?"
So was the thinking of Jeannette Rankin before she decided to run for Congress, years before most women even had the right to vote.
Growing up a small-town girl in Montana, Jeannette showed courage and initiative, helping to run her family's ranch and daring to go to university at a time when most women did not even finish high school. She was bright and well-educated, but it wasn't until a visit to her brother in Boston -- where she glimpsed the harsh realities that women and children faced in the slums -- that she knew what she wanted to do with her life.
Immediately she got to work, helping in settlement houses and working with orphaned children, but Jeannette wanted to give women the power to better their own lives -- so she shifted her focus to suffrage and ran for Congress. On November 9, 1916, Jeannette Rankin became the first woman to win a seat in the House of Representatives. While in office, she continued her fight for women's rights and also bravely advocated for peace during World War I. Jeannette Rankin was a true pioneer in women's rights and an undeniable force behind the peace movement in America.
In this historical account, Marx's candid text and Andreasen's finely detailed illustrations work together to capture the strength and spirit of one of America's most inspirational leaders.

Matthews, Elizabeth
DIFFERENT LIKE COCO - The rags-to-riches story of Coco Chanel (icon of fashion and culture) plays out in a wonderful picture-book biography that is as full of style and spirit as its heroine is. (Ages 7-10)

McCully, Emily Arnold
MARVELOUS MATTIE: HOW MARGARET E. KNIGHT BECAME AN INVENTOR - Ages 5-8 [With her sketchbook labeled My Inventions and her father’s toolbox, Mattie could make almost anything – toys, sleds, and a foot warmer. When she was just twelve years old, Mattie designed a metal guard to prevent shuttles from shooting off textile looms and injuring workers. As an adult, Mattie invented the machine that makes the square-bottom paper bags we still use today. However, in court, a man claimed the invention was his, stating that she “could not possibly understand the mechanical complexities.” Marvelous Mattie proved him wrong, and over the course of her life earned the title of “the Lady Edison.”]

McClafferty, Carla Killough
SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING: MARIE CURIE AND RADIUM - Ages 10 and Up. Marie Curie’s story has fascinated and inspired young readers decades. The poor Polish girl who worked eight years to be able to afford to attend the Sorbonne in Paris became one of the most important scientists of her day, winning not one but two Nobel Prizes. Her life is a fascinating one, filled with hard work, humanitarianism, and tragedy. Her work with her husband, Pierre – the study of radioactivity and the discovery of the elements radium and polonium – changed science forever. But she is less well known for her selfless efforts during World War to establish mobile X-ray units so that wounded French soldiers could get better care faster. When she stood to profit greatly from her scientific work, she chose not to, making her methods and findings known and available to all of science. As a result, this famous woman spent most of her life in need of money, often to buy the very elements she discovered.
Marie Curie’s life and work are given a fresh telling, one that also explores the larger picture of the effects of radium in world culture, and its exploitation and sad misuse.

McDonough, Yona Zeldis
SISTERS IN STRENGTH: AMERICAN WOMEN WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE [ Pocahontas, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Amelia Earhart, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Margaret Mead]

McHenry, Robert , Editor
HER HERITAGE: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN WOMEN - CD -Recommend for Every School Library. An impressive collection of 1,000 Women who shaped America. Provides an alphabetical list of the women sorted by career or avocation.
The Women
"Her Heritage offers a wonderful diversity of stories -- women who were pioneers and scientists and reformers and soldiers and artists, who overcame, exploited, subverted, or simply ignored social and legal disabilities; and who, even when their names and works had been tucked away out of sight, could be discerned in the lasting changes they effected. And by bringing the technology of multimedia to bear on the task of biographical story-telling, Her Heritage captures the vividness, the here-and-now real-ness of the history these women lived and made."

Meltzer, Milton
TEN QUEENS: PORTRAITS OF WOMEN OF POWER - Young Adult
From the courage and beauty of Esther (5th century B.C.) to the fierce battle tactics of Boudicca (A.D. c. 62) to the reforming spirit of Catherine the Great (1729-1796), here are ten essays about the personal and political natures of ten queens by an author who has been called "arguably the best writer of social history for children and adolescents ever." Most of these queens were, by today's standards, astonishingly young. Some were schooled to rule, others not. But all were ambitious, passionate, and determined to hold power. And all, in their successes and failures, ideals and compromises, assumptions and privileges, present interesting contrasts with the lives of modern women. Ten Queens was celebrated as a Booklist Editors' Choice, a Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, an International Reading Association's Teachers' Choice, and a Bank Street College Best Book, among many other citations.

Moss, Marissa
BRAVE HARRIET: The First Woman to Fly the English Channel Ages 6-9 - Based on the life of Harriet Quimby, the first American woman to receive a pilot's license and the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel (1912). Her feat was overshadowed by the sinking of the Titanic. [Learn more about Harriet Quimby]   [PBS Chasing the Sun]
MIGHTY JACKIE : THE STRIKE-OUT QUEEN - Ages 6-8
She had one pitch -- a wicked, dropping curve ball. But no seventeen-year-old girl could pitch against Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. It was unthinkable. Then on April 2, 1931, the New York Yankees stopped in Tennessee for an exhibition game against the Chattanooga Lookouts. And on that day Jackie Mitchell made baseball history.
--Simon & Schuster 2004

Olasky, Susan
ANNIE HENRY and The Birth of Liberty (Series of Four Books) 9-12
Daughter of Patrick Henry and her role and life during the American Revolution.

Patrick, Jean L.S.
THE GIRL WHO STRUCK OUT BABE RUTH - Ages 6-9 [1931 Pitcher Jackie Mitchell]

Peavy, Ursula Smith
DREAMS INTO DEEDS: NINE WOMEN WHO DARED - YA
Out of Print. Check Library.

Plourde, Lynn
MARGARET CHASE SMITH: A WOMAN FOR PRESIDENT - Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman to run for president on a major party ticket. This biography highlights key moments in her personal and political life. From Smith's humble beginnings to her foray into Congress to her historic decision to run for president, readers will be inspired by the fiesty, independent woman who embodied the qualities upon which this country was founded. A series of thematically organized time lines accompanies the text, providing context for the life of this extraordinary woman. Ages 8-11

Rappaport, Doreen
AMERICAN WOMEN: THEIR LIVES IN THEIR WORDS 9 - 12
Check your Library. This may be difficult to purchase. letters, journals, and other writings, American Women spans U.S. history from the times of Anne Hutchinson to Sojourer Truth to today's teenagers. A history of daughters, workers, wives, servants, and achievers, this powerful book canvases all social, economic, and ethnic groups. A 1992 ALA Best Book for Young Adults.
LIVING DANGEROUSLY: AMERICAN WOMEN WHO RISKED THEIR LIVES FOR ADVENTURE by Doreen Rapport - Young Adult - Check your Library. The danger in the title is really their courage and how they overcame obstacles to accomplish their visions. Featured are six women including a diver, a specimen museum collector, a woman pilot, and disabled participant in a marathon.

Reich, Susanna
CLARA SCHUMANN: PIANO VIRTUOSO

Rex, Kay
NO DAUGHTER OF MINE: THE WOMEN AND HISTORY OF THE CANADIAN WOMEN'S PRESS CLUB, 1904-1971.
YA/Adult - Book is out of print. Check out the website for information.
http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol2/no31/daughters.html

Rinaldi, Ann
AN UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP: A NOVEL OF MARY TODD LINCOLN AND ELIZABETH KECKLEY - Ages 10 and Up - On the night of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, his frantic wife, Mary, calls for her best friend and confidante, Elizabeth Keckley, but the woman is mistakenly kept from her side by guards who were unaware of Mary Todd Lincoln's close friendship with the black seamstress. How did these two women--one who grew up in a wealthy Southern home and became the wife of the president of the United States, the other who was born a slave and eventually purchased her own freedom--come to be such close companions?

Rolka, Gail Meyer, Bill Rolka
100 WOMEN WHO SHAPED WORLD HISTORY - Young Adult
Concisely written profiles span history and place each woman's accomplishments within the context of the society in which she lived. As a bonus for readers who enjoy trivia and challenges, Rolka includes a trivia quiz and a list of related projects. A time line, locator maps, cross-references, and an index are planned. With those promised additions, the book, while not inclusive, will be a must for women's history collections.

Ross, Lillian Hammer; Illustrator, Kyra Teis
DAUGHTERS OF EVE: STRONG WOMEN OF THE BIBLE Ages 8 Up

Rossi, Ann
CREATED EQUAL : WOMEN CAMPAIGN FOR THE RIGHT TO VOTE 1840 - 1920 - Ages 9-12 - Begins with the early suffragist movement of the late 19th century, telling of the state of women's rights as they were at the time. Learn about Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and the other women of the Seneca Falls Convention, as well as Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone fought long and hard for the rights of women. Braving the turmoil of the Civil War era, these women formed organizations such as the American Equal Rights Association and helped to push for equal rights for not only themselves, but for African Americans as well. The turn-of-the-century saw a growth in the anti-suffragist movement, and new ladies appeared on the scene ready to fight hard for their beliefs. Alice Paul and her contemporaries reinvigorated the suffragist movement and spurred an organized political effort to win the vote. Through protests, parades, journalistic pieces, and even jail sentences, these women pushed the government to pass the 19th Amendment that would give women the right to vote. By 1920, American women across the country were able to vote in a national election for the first time. Illustrated with period photographs, paintings, and drawings. Also included are a glossary and an index.

Ryan, Pam Munoz
AMELIA AND ELEANOR GO FOR A RIDE

Sabin, Francene
AMELIA EARHART : ADVENTURE IN THE SKY 9 - 12
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL : THE FIRST WOMAN DOCTOR 9 - 12
THE COURAGE OF HELEN KELLER 9-12

Sills, Leslie
INSPIRATIONS : STORIES ABOUT WOMEN ARTISTS 9-12
Georgia O'Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, and Faith Ringgold.
VISIONS : STORIES ABOUT WOMEN ARTISTS by Leslie Sills 9-12 Mary Cassatt, Leonora Carrington, Betye Saar, and Mark Frank.
VISIONS: STORIES ABOUT WOMEN ARTISTS 9-12. Artists:
Mary Cassatt, Leonora Carrington, Betye Saar, and Mark Frank

Schroeder, Alan
MINTY: A STORY OF YOUNG HARRIET TUBMAN 4-8

Sirch, Willow Ann
ECO-WOMEN: PROTECTORS OF THE EARTH Ages 9 and Up

Sullivan, George
BERENICE ABBOTT PHOTOGRAPHER: AN INDEPENDENT VISION (Ages 12 and Up) - One theme repeatedly crops up in the life and career of Berenice Abbott: her refusal to be defined by other people's expectations. Spurning traditional roles for women of her era, she lived a bohemian life among other artists in New York's Greenwich Village and Paris, and embarked upon a career in what was then a male-dominated field. Decades later, her photographs are celebrated as some of the most authentic images of a city ever captured on film, and she is remembered not only as a master American photographer but also as a teacher, writer, inventor, and photographic archivist. [Links to her work]

Stauffacher, Sue
NOTHING BUT TROUBLE: THE STORY OF ALTHEA GIBSON Everyone agrees: her mama, her daddy, her teacher, even the policeman. But when Buddy Walker, the play leader on Althea's street in Harlem, watches her play paddle tennis, he sees something more: pure possibility. Buddy buys Althea her very own stringed tennis racket, and before long, she's on her way to becoming a great athlete - and to proving that she's more than just trouble.
Althea Gibson (1927-2003) was the first African American ever to compete in and win the Wimbledon Cup. Sue Stauffacher's lively text, paired with vibrant paintings by artist Greg Couch, captures the exuberance, ambition, and triumph of this remarkable woman. (Ages 7-10) [LEARN MORE about ALTHEA]

Tchana, Katrin
THE SERPENT SLAYER AND OTHER STORIES OF STRONG WOMEN Ages 7 Up

Tucker, Sherrie
Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s - Adult. What Ken Burns left out in JAZZ, you'll find in SWING SHIFT. This is a detailed historical archive of the "All-Girl" bands (over 100 of them) of the WWII era who have been forgotten or considered too insignificant to be recorded in history.

Waal, Carla, Barbara Oliver Korner(Editors)
HARDSHIP AND HOPE MISSOURI WOMEN WRITING ABOUT THEIR LIVES,1820-1920.

Walker, Sally M.
THE 18 PENNY GOOSE 4 - 8 - The Fear of War and a pet named Solomon. The story takes place during the War for American Independence.

Wetterer, Margaret K.
KATE SHELLEY AND THE MIDNIGHT EXPRESS - Ages 6-9 [1881 story of courage]

Yolen, Jane
SEA QUEENS: WOMEN PIRATES AROUND THE WORLD (Ages 9-13) - Throughout the ages, women from all classes and walks of life turned to pirating out of necessity, desperation, or greed. Acclaimed author Jane Yolen examines the contradictions of these bold women's lives and times. Meet Artemisia, the admiral-queen of Persia in 500 BC; Grania O'Malley, the Irish "pirate queen" who challenged Queen Elizabeth I's British ships; Madame Ching, who sailed the South China Sea in the early 1800s; and then other female pirates on their ships, in battle, and in disguise.

SPECIFIC WOMEN

Abigail Adams (1744-1818) - America's First Women's Rights Leader and wife of John Adams, the second president of the United States.
Jane Addams - (1860-1935) Pioneer Social Reform (Hull House)
Priscilla Mullins Alden - Mayflower passenger in 1620 to Plymouth
Mary Anning - (1799-1847) The girl who found the first sea reptile fossil.
Jane Austen (1775-1817) First Modern Novelist
Susan B. Anthony - Woman's Suffrage
Mary Astell (1668-1731) Author, A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694)
Clara Barton (1821-1912) Founder, The American Red Cross
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) [The Aphra Behn Society] - First woman to entirely support herself through writing. Political activist, early abolitionist, involved in a slave rebellion in the West Indies. Author of Oroonoko (first novel to illustrate the atrocities of slavery) She had 17plays produced in 17 years, wrote thirteen novels before Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
Sarah Bernhardt - (1844-1923), Victorian Actress
Sophia Hayden (Bennett) (1868-1953) Frist Female MIT Graduate Architecture
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910 ) First woman Doctor of Medicine in America
Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894) - Women's Rights - Publisher
Belle Boyd (1843-1900) - Isabella (Belle) Boyd, Confederate spy and confidante of Gen. Stonewall Jackson. Made honorary major by President Lincoln.
Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)- America's First Published Women Poet
Nellie Bly (1865-1922) Journalist
Frances "Fanny" Burney d'Arblay (1752-1840) - Mother of the English novel: Evelina (1778), Cecelia, Camilla, The Wanderer or Female Difficulties. Diary spans 72 years.
Martha Jane Canary Burk "Calamity Jane"
Rachel Carson - writer, scientist, and ecologist
Catherine the Great(l762-1796) Russian Empress
Mary Cassat (1844-1926) American Impressionist Painter
Shirley Chisholm (1924-) Congresswoman
Jacqueline Cochran (1912 - 1980) - held more speed, altitude, and distance records than any other male or female pilot in aviation history.
Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman (1892-1926) - First African-American female pilot
Marie Curie (1867-1934) Polish-French chemist and physicist
Virginia Dare - (1587 - unknown) - Colonist. First English child born in America
Dorothy Day (1897-1980) - Founder and leader of the Catholic Worker movement
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) - Poet
Amelia Earhart - Aviator [Thinkquest]
Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) - Author, Teacher, Publisher, Christian Science Monitor
Maria Wright Edelman - First African-American admitted to Bar/Children's advocate
Gertrude Belle Elion - co-winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for medicine
Ella Fitzgerald (1918-1996) Jazz Singer
Anne Frank Diary Chronology
Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) Author, teacher, women's rights advocate
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 - 1653) - first woman to paint major historical and religious artwork.
Sophie Germain (1776-1831) Revolutionary Mathematician
Charlotte Perkins Gilman- (1860-1935) - Women's Movement
Katherine Graham - Publisher Washington Post
Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1788-1879)] - writer, poet, author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
Lillian Hellman ( -1984) Author, Playwright
Anita Hill - Law Professor and Clarence Thomas Controversy
Julia Butterfly Hill - Ecologist's two-year vigil to save "Luna" a Redwood Tree.
S. E. Hinton - Author
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910 - 1994) - Chemist, Crystallographer, Humanitarian
Billie Holiday ( -1959) "Lady Day" Jazz Singer
Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992) Pioneer in Computer Science
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) Afriican-American anthropologist, folkorist, writer, member Harlem Renaissance movement.
Joan of Arc (1412-1431) Martyr and military heroine [LEARN MORE]
Judith Leyster (1609-1660) Master Dutch Painter
Sybil Ludington (1761-1839) The Female Paul Revere
Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972) 1963 Nobel Prize for Physics
Catherine Macauly (1731-1791) Author, Letters on Education (1790); Catherine Macauly on the education of girls - (friend and correspondent with George Washington)
Barbara McClintock (1902 - 1992) - 1983 Nobel Prize in Genetics
Margaret Mead (1901-1978) Anthropologist
Golda Meir (1898-1978) Israel's Third Prime Minister
Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) Frst professional woman astronomer in America.
Toni Morrison - 1993 Nobel Laureate in Literature [see also]
Carry Nation - (1846-1930) Prohibitionist Reformer
Annie Oakley (1860-19__) - Frontier woman and scout
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994)
Rosa Parks (1913- ) American social activist
Alice Paul (1885-1977) - Women's Suffrage - Founder, National Woman's Party
Mary Pickford (1892-1979) - First Lady of Silent Films
Pocahontas
Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) Author, Illustrator, Farmer, Preservationist
Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722-1793) First important agriculturalist of the United States
Rosie the Riveter - Honoring American Women's Labor in WWII
Edith Nourse Rogers (1881-1960) political leader/legislator
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) Humanitarian, First Lady, Diplomat
Eleanor Roosevelt - The American Experience PBS
Betsy Ross (1752-1836) - sewer of the First American Flag [Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia]
Wilma Rudolph - Athlete
Sacajawea (1789-1812?) Lewis and Clark Expedition
Deborah Sampson (1760-1827) America's First Woman Soldier
Sanger, Margaret (1879-1966) Founder of the Birth Control Movement.
Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), Author, Feminist
Clara Schumann (1819-1896) child prodigy, piano virtuoso.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) - Suffragist Women's Movement- Women's Right Speech
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), Author, "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Humanitarian
Margaret Thatcher (1925- ) First elected European woman prime minister
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) American abolitionist
Harriet Tubman - Underground Railroad
Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard - 1995 co-winner Nobel Prize for medicine
Madam C. J. Walker (1867-1919) - Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Social Activist. Black laundress who founded a cosmetics company and became the first female self-made millionaire in the United States.
Ida B. Wells: Crusade for Justice (anti-lynching), a founding member of NAACP, journalist
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) - First African-American to be published.
Emma Hart Willard (1787-1870) - "Pioneering the Education of
Young Women"
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) - One of the first women political journalists, introduced smallpox vaccination to England.

LINKS In No Particular Order. New Window May Open

Women's Stories site: Fascinating facts, little-known anecdotes, and provocative quotations from the week's famous and infamous women, all in a quick-read format with links toadditional resources and a free weekly newsletter. Some of the women you'll know; some you won't -- all are remarkable.

NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES 1995-1997

4000 Years of Women in Science

Women in Congress - Brief biography of all women who have served or are currently serving in the House of Representatives with links to Women's Suffrage and the 19th Amendment and Women's Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920.

The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences

British History 1700-1920: The Emancipation of Women - Biographies

Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering

The First Ladies Collection: Biographies ( Collection of Books)

The Journal of Women's History. The first journal devoted exclusively to the international field of women's history.

Past Notable Women of Computing & Mathematics

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930

National Women's History Project - "History looks different when the contributions of women are included."

Women in Architecture

American Maid: Growing Up Female in Life and Literature - CURRICULUM UNITS

Women's History in America Presented by Women's International Center - Link of Biographies

Women in Aviation   [See also: WASP of WWII

AMERICAN WOMEN AT WORK

Women in Philosophy

Women in Mathematics

Biographies - Alphabetical Index of Women Mathematicians

Biographies - Distinguished Women of Past and Present

Celebration of Women Writers - By Author, Century, Country

Female Frontiers - NASA - Combines the resources of the NASA Quest projects Women of NASA, Space Team Online and Learning Technology Channel, all of which are devoted to bringing the People and Science of NASA into the classroom. Includes: Profiles of Frontier Women - "Firsts"

Distinguished Women - Search by Field of Activity

SELECTED WOMEN AND GENDER RESOURCES ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB

American Women's History Research Guide - American Indian Women, Asian American Women, Civil War, Education, Farm Work and Life,Sexuality, Women in Medicine,Women's Rights,World War II

Women In World History Curriculum - Link Resources

NOT FOR OURSELVES ALONE, a film by Ken Burns and Paul Barnes [PBS].
Experience the work of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony—at home or in the classroom. Track key events in the suffrage movement, delve into historic documents and essays, and take a look at where women are today.

National Museum of Women's History

NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME - Catalog, Women's History Organizations and Network and U.S. Women's History Links.

100 Years: Women In Sports - USA Today.

MY HERO - Read about artists, explorers, scientists, teachers,etc.

Top 25 Women on the Web