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Miss Paul and the president: the creative campaign for women's right to vote
Par Nancy Zhang, Dean Robbins. 2016
Recounts the story of suffragette Alice Paul (1885-1977) and her campaign to win women the right to vote. Highlights Alice's…
spunk and perseverance in her effort to convince President Woodrow Wilson and a stubborn country that it was time to change the Constitution. For grades K-3. 2016Ada Byron Lovelace and the thinking machine
Par Laurie Wallmark, April Chu. 2015
Biography of Ada Byron Lovelace (1815-1852), from her early creative fascination with mathematics and science and her devastating bout with…
measles to the groundbreaking algorithm she wrote for Charles Babbage's analytical engine. For grades K-3. 2015Maria Mitchell (Great Women in History)
Par Gail Saunders-Smith, Anna Butzer. 2015
Dare the wind: The Record-breaking Voyage of Eleanor Prentiss and the Flying Cloud
Par Tracey E. Fern, Emily Arnold McCully. 2014
Recounts the daring feat of Eleanor "Ellen" Prentiss (1814-1900), who learned to navigate ships at an early age. In 1851,…
aboard the clipper Flying Cloud, Ellen created a new world record for fastest voyage from New York to San Francisco. For grades 2-4. 2014I am Jazz!
Par Jazz Jennings, Jessica Herthel, Shelagh McNicholas. 2014
Autobiography of Jazz Jennings, who recounts her early awareness that she is a girl in spite of male anatomy, and…
the acceptance she finds through a wise doctor who explains her natural transgender status. For grades K-3 and older readers. 2014Enormous SMALLNESS: a story of E. E. Cummings
Par Kris Di Giacomo, Matthew Burgess. 2015
Presents the life and work of the twentieth-century American poet Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962). Focuses on his fascination with words…
from a young age and highlights his poetry's inspirational and innovative qualities. For grades 2-4. 2015Hillary Rodham Clinton: some girls are born to lead
Par Michelle Markel, LeUyen Pham. 2016
Highlights from the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton, including student elections, law school years and activism, marriage to Bill Clinton…
and love of politics, and how she dealt with criticism. Examines her resilience and determination, and her ambition to be president. For grades K-3. 2016Earmuffs for everyone!: how Chester Greenwood became known as the inventor of earmuffs
Par Meghan McCarthy. 2015
Short biography of Chester Greenwood and his patented invention of earmuffs. Although not the first to devise ear-warming wear, Greenwood…
is remembered for the winter accessory. Also discusses several other creative inventions. For grades K-3. 2015John Muir wrestles a waterfall
Par Julie Danneberg, Jamie Hogan. 2015
Recounts the adventure of naturalist John Muir, when he explored a waterfall in Yosemite Valley, California, in April 1871. Interspersed…
with clips of his life as a self-taught scientist, writer, and founder of the Sierra Club. For grades 3-6. 2015The case for loving: the fight for interracial marriage
Par Sean Qualls, Selina Alko. 2015
Recounts the story of interracial couple Mildred and Richard Loving, who got married in Washington, D. C., and were arrested…
after they returned to Virginia, where their union was illegal. They took their legal case all the way to the U. S. Supreme Court. For grades 2-4. 2015Leontyne Price: voice of a century
Par Carole Boston Weatherford, Raul Colón. 2014
Short biography of acclaimed African American opera singer Mary Violet Leontyne Price. Born in Mississippi in 1927, Leontyne broke down…
racial barriers with her performances at the Metropolitan Opera House, Italy's La Scala opera house, and on television. For grades 2-4. 2014A boy and a jaguar
Par Alan Rabinowitz, Cátia Chien. 2014
Autobiography of a wildcat conservationist. Author discusses his lifelong struggle with stuttering and how his love of animals helped him…
learn to communicate better, propelling him into a career in wildlife advocacy. Schneider Family Book Award. For grades 2-4. 2014Papa's mechanical fish
Par Candace Fleming, Boris Kulikov. 2013
In the summer of 1851, with encouragement and ideas provided by his family, an inventor builds a working submarine and…
takes his family for a ride. Includes notes about Lodner Phillips, the real inventor on whom the story is based. For grades K-3 and older readers. 2013The Pilot and the Little Prince: the life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Par Peter Sís, Peter Sis. 2014
A biography of French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Antoine was one of the first pilots to deliver mail…
by plane, and he wrote of the adventures that later influenced his book The Little Prince (DB 44071). For grades 3-6 and older readers. 2014Who says women can't be doctors?: the story of Elizabeth Blackwell
Par Marjorie Priceman, Tanya Lee Stone. 2013
Short biography of the first female American doctor, Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910). Explains society's limitations on women's occupations during the 1800s.…
Describes Elizabeth's determination to break down those barriers--even after receiving twenty-eight rejection letters from medical schools. For grades K-3. 2013The boy who loved math: the improbable life of Paul Erdös
Par Deborah Heiligman, LeUyen Pham. 2013
Biography of Hungarian mathematician Paul Erds̲ (1913-1996), who loved numbers--especially prime numbers--but didn't like school or following rules. Describes Erds̲'s…
practice of staying with friends all over the world who took care of him so he could concentrate on just math. For grades 3-6. 2013A splash of red: the life and art of Horace Pippin
Par Jen Bryant, Jennifer Bryant, Melissa Sweet. 2013
Biography of self-taught African American folk artist Horace Pippin (1888-1946). Describes Pippin's childhood in Pennsylvania and New York, the combat…
injury that threatened to end his career, his struggle to learn to paint again, and the widespread fame he achieved. Schneider Family Award. For grades K-3 and older readers. 2013Fifty cents and a dream: young Booker T. Washington
Par Jabari Asim, Bryan Collier. 2012
Biography focuses on the younger years of African American educator Booker T. Washington (1856-1915). Highlights his desire to learn to…
read when that was forbidden for slaves. Covers Washington's struggles and his ambition to study at the Hampton Institute--a place where black people could learn freely. For grades 2-4. 2012Librarian on the roof!: a true story
Par Stephen Gilpin, M. G. King. 2010
Account of librarian RoseAleta Laurell, who climbed onto the roof of the Dr. Eugene Clark Library in Lockhart, Texas--and stayed…
there for a whole week! Details RoseAleta's determination to raise the twenty thousand dollars needed to give the library a fun and fully stocked children's section. For grades K-3. 2010Hanging off Jefferson's nose: growing up on Mount Rushmore
Par Sally Wern Comport, Tina Nichols Coury. 2012