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By Agnes Smedley. 1987
Marie Rogers grows up in rural America, torn between helping her family financially and furthering her own education. She eventually…
travels to San Francisco and then on to Asia, involved with the Socialist Party. Includes foreword by Alice Walker and afterword by Nancy Hoffman. Some violence and some strong language. 1929By Garth Nix, Kathleen Jennings, Tehani Wessely, Tansy Rayner Roberts. 2015
This collection of twenty-two stories features an array of women challenging conventional wisdom about appropriate female behavior throughout history. The…
protagonists include both the iconic and all-but-forgotten. Authors include, among others, Garth Nix, Jane Yolen, Liz Barr, Kirstyn McDermott, and Foz Meadows. 2015By Anne Milano Appel, Giuseppe Catozzella. 2016
At eight years old, Samia loved running. She shared her dream with her best friend and neighbor, Ali, also eight,…
who appointed himself her coach. As she aged, this love never died and she dreamed of representing Somalia in the Olympics. She represented her country in the 2008 Beijing games, coming in last, but the sight of her amidst the others brought the crowd to its feetBy Marjorie Priceman, Jonah Winter. 2012
A tribute to the life of the iconic jazz entertainer depicts her disadvantaged youth in a segregated America, her unique…
performance talents, and the irrepressible sense of style that helped her overcome racial barriers. For grades K-3By Kathleen Teahan. 2017
This fact-filled picture book for young readers celebrates the delicious cookie that got its start in a small town Massachusetts…
restaurant during the darkest days of the Great Depression. For grades 3-6By Monica Kulling, Qin Leng. 2016
Deciding to enjoy her birthday in spite of her friend Gertrude forgetting it, Alice spends a delightful day in Paris,…
where she rides the carousel and watches a puppet show, unaware that Gertrude is cooking up a special birthday surprise for her. For grades 3-6By Susan Campbell Bartoletti. 2015
Mary Mallon, who became known as "Typhoid Mary," was hired as a cook for a wealthy family in 1906. A…
few weeks later an outbreak of typhoid fever swept through the household. Eventually it was determined that Mallon was a healthy carrier, spreading the disease but not suffering it herself. She was arrested and quarantined against her will. This biography explores the many violations of Mallon's human and civil rights, the culture of the period, how the public and health officials responded, and the sensationalism of "yellow journalism." For grades 5-8By Laurie Halse Anderson, Matt Faulkner. 2002
By Mary MacNeill, Mary I. MacNeill. 1999
Mary Macneill shares her charming and inspirational memoir of her husband, Wilmot, and their last year together. It is also…
a memoir about the house in the country he insists they build together before he dies. From a tiny house they shared in Hartford to a dilapidated barn in the Connecticut countryside that they make livable, Mary undergoes a surprisingly contemporary journey into an independent lifeBy Doreen Rappaport, Matt Tavares. 2012
This biography of Helen Keller introduces young readers to one of the world's most influential women. Using quotes from Keller…
herself, the author brings to life her story of courage and achievement. For grades K-3By Lesléa Newman, Leslea Newman. 2012
Relates, from various points of view, events from the night of October 6, 1998, when twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay…
college student, was lured out of a Wyoming bar, savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die. Violence and strong language. Award winnerIn the wake of the tragic suicide of a young, gay, university student, Tyler Clementi, the movement "It Gets Better"…
began, as thousands of user-created videos posted online echoed this message for LGBT youth of all races, backgrounds, and colors. Stemming from this movement, this collection of stories addresses the longstanding issues of sexual abuse, suicide, HIV/AIDS, racism, and homophobia in the African American and Latino communitites, and more specifically among young gay men of color. Contains some explicit descriptions of sex, some strong language, and some violenceBy Linda Coverdale, Malika Oufkir. 2006
Moroccan woman continues her autobiography after recalling her family's twenty years in prison in Stolen Lives (DB 52093). Describes her…
years under house arrest following her release and her emigration to France and later the United States. Tells of coping with modern inventions and a culture of excess. 2006By Madeleine L'Engle. 1984
L'Engle describes her ninety-year-old mother's plunge into senility during her final summer at Crosswicks, the family home. As she recalls…
this fourth four-generation season, L'Engle reviews her parent's rich life and shows how she influenced the entire family. 1974By Walter Dean Myers. 1999
The life of an African princess who was about to be killed in a ritual sacrifice in 1850 when she…
was rescued by Commander Forbes, taken to England, and presented to Queen Victoria as Sarah Forbes Bonetta. The queen became Sarah's protector and godmother to her first child. For grades 5-8By Laurence Anholt, Sheila Moxley. 1999
A brief biography of a young English fossil hunter in the early 1800s. Describes how Mary Anning learns about treasures…
in the rocks and how at age twelve she makes an important scientific discovery--bones of a sea monster that are 165 million years old. For grades K-3. 1998By Margaret Landon. 1997
Anna Leonowens, a Welsh widow hired in 1862 to be governess to the children and concubines of the king of…
Siam, found the contrasts between the exotic Orient and Victorian Great Britain striking. Landon recounts Leonowen's five years of adventures and confrontations. This book inspired the Broadway musical The King and IBy Alma Flor Ada. 1994
Children's book author tells of growing up in Cuba with her extended family. She has picked stories from those "hanging…
in the branches of the trees of (her) childhood." Alma's blind great-grandmother Mina, who sold or gave handmade dolls to neighbors and gave gifts to her relatives according to their wealth and needs, managed to keep things in balance even though she never learned mathematics. For grades 3-6By Richard Polenberg. 1987
A history professor examines the case of five anarchists charged with distributing leaflets opposing U.S. intervention in Russia after World…
War I. He details the superheated atmosphere of patriotism in the country at that time, and the unfair trial the five received after being beaten and coerced to confess. Polenberg also analyzes the U.S. Supreme Court and its decision in the caseBy Crystal Hubbard. 2005
A picture-book biography highlighting a pivotal event in the childhood of African American baseball player Marcenia "Toni Stone" Lyle Alberga,…
the woman who broke baseball's gender barrier by becoming the first female roster member of a professional Negro League team. 2005. For grades 2-4