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A is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women

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Lynne Cheney and Robin Preiss Glasser collaborated on America: A Patriotic Primer, which captured the imagination of American children and became a national best-seller. Now they turn their hands to A is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women and bring the great women of American history to life. Filled to the brim with words and pictures that celebrate the remarkable (although often unmarked) achievements of American women, this is a book to relish and to read again and again.

Beautiful Warrior: The Legend of the Nun’s Kung Fu

admin — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:04:06 +0000

In an exciting tale set in 17th-century China, a girl who is trained in the warrior arts of kung fu sets out to teach her fighting skills to a princess. While both girls learn to protect themselves against bullies, they also learn that the true meaning of kung fu is more than kicking and punching.

Coretta Scott

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Walking many miles to school in the dusty road, young Coretta knew, too well, the unfairness of life in the segregated south. A yearning for equality began to grow. Together with Martin Luther King, Jr., she gave birth to a vision and a journey—with dreams of freedom for all.

This extraordinary union of poetic text by Ntozake Shange and monumental artwork by Kadir Nelson captures the movement for civil rights in the United States and honors its most elegant inspiration, Coretta Scott.

Girls: A History of Growing Up Female in America

admin — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:10:35 +0000

This innovative and well-researched book by Penny Colman uses primary source material (journals, letters, photographs, and magazines) to tell the story of real-life girls from pre-Colonial times to the present. Girls will help you inspire your students to keep their own journals and record their own histories.

Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters

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Pinkney tells the stories of ten African American women — from Soujourner Truth to Rosa Parks — who faced prejudice and oppression with amazing courage and grace. In the end, all ten women paved the way for changes in the lives of future generations.

Lives of Extraordinary Women

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Krull’s book makes it clear that men are not always the ones in charge. In this colorfully illustrated book, she introduces 20 women that have been queens, warriors, prime ministers, revolutionary leaders, and Indian chiefs. She also features first ladies who refused to stand by while others ran the show.

Liza Lou and the Yeller Belly Swamp

admin — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:04:41 +0000

Clever Liza Lou has the stuff that makes leaders. In this fanciful tale, she faces off against “swamp haunts,” witches, devils, “gobblygooks,” and more! Not only is Liza Lou victorious against these evil forces, but she gets them to do her chores.

Molly Bannaky

admin — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:06:03 +0000

This beautifully illustrated picture book tells the story of Molly Bannaky, a brave but lesser-known figure from Colonial history. Bannaky, a former indentured servant, marries a slave and starts a farm with him.

Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls

admin — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:05:24 +0000

In this exciting volume there are 13 “folktales about heroes — regular sword-wielding, spear-throwing, villain-stomping, rescuing-type heroes who also happen to be female.” Feisty and fearless females, ranging from the Greek Atalanta to the Nigerian Nana Miriam, are all represented as strong and resourceful.

Sisters in Strength

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Eleven famous leaders — including Pocahontas, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Helen Keller, and Margaret Mead — are profiled in this picture biography. A women’s history time line and bibliography are included.

Stealing Freedom

admin — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:09:17 +0000

Ann Maria Weems was a slave who lived during the mid-1800s in Maryland. When she was 13 years old, she disguised herself as a boy and escaped to Canada. This carefully researched historical novel tells her story, which is one of adventure and escape fused with careful details about the Underground Railroad.

Tallchief: America’s Prima Ballerina

admin — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:06:42 +0000

Rosemary Wells’s mother was a ballerina who believed that Maria Tallchief was America’s greatest dancer. So it made sense for Wells to seek out this famous ballerina to collaborate on a picture biography. Wells does a marvelous job telling Tallchief’s story, from her early years on an Osage Indian reservation in Oklahoma to the stages of New York. Young readers will see that persistence and practice pay off.

The Care and Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls

admin — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:16:34 +0000

This “head-to-toe” guide answers all your questions, from hair care to healthy eating, bad breath to bras, periods to pimples, and everything in between. With tips, how-to’s, letters from girls, and facts from the experts, here’s straightforward advice you can really use.

The Daring Book for Girls

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The Daring Book for Girls is the manual for everything that girls need to know — and that doesn’t mean sewing buttonholes! Whether it’s female heroes in history, secret note-passing skills, science projects, friendship bracelets, double dutch, cats cradle, the perfect cartwheel or the eternal mystery of what boys are thinking, this book has it all. But it’s not just a guide to giggling at sleepovers — although that’s included, of course! Whether readers consider themselves tomboys, girly-girls, or a little bit of both, this book is every girl’s invitation to adventure.

The Other Side

admin — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:03:30 +0000

Clover, a young African American girl, lives in a place where a fence separates the black side of town from the white side. Her mother has warned her that it is not safe to climb over the fence to the white side. But one summer a white girl named Annie begins to sit on the fence. Soon Clover joins her and transforms the fence from a divider into a resting place for children, both black and white. This is a touching and powerful story in which “young girls are the activists, the people making the change.”

Through My Eyes

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In November 1960, America watched as six-year-old Ruby Bridges, surrounded by U.S. marshals, walked through a crowd of threatening segregationists to enter her elementary school. Forty years later, Bridges tells how she made civil rights history by being one of the first African American students to attend an all-white school in New Orleans.

Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa

admin — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:02:49 +0000

This picture book is based on the true story of Mary Kingsley, a British woman who traveled to West Africa during the 1800s. Author and illustrator Don Brown colorfully captures her adventures, which include staring down a hippo, smacking a rude crocodile with a canoe paddle, and surviving the treacherous rapids of the Remboué River.