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• Make a Pretty Sound

  a Story of Ella Jenkins, the First Lady of Children's Music

  Todd, Traci N.,

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  This book tells Ella's story from the time she was a young child, first learning about music through her Uncle Flood playing harmonica, to her encounters with racial discrimination, and finally her involvement with the folk music movement and her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Imogen

  the Life and Work of Imogen Cunningham

  Partridge, Elizabeth,

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  "Imogen Cunningham loved to observe the world. She noticed the colors in the woods outside her house and how light and shadows moved between the trees. She tried to capture this beauty on paper with pencils, but something was missing. One day she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Change Is in the Air

  the Hidden Discoveries of Eunice Newton Foote, the First Climate Scientist

  Donnelly, Rebecca,

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  A visionary scientist, suffragist, and mother, Eunice conducted a groundbreaking experiment that uncovered the first clues about global warming.

• The Girl Who Changed Little League

  the True Story of Maria Pepe and Her Battle to Play Ball

  Pepe, Maria,

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  "A picture book biography that tells the story of Maria Pepe, the eleven-year-old girl who changed the course of Little League history forever."

• I Am the River

  Sarah E. Ray and the Bob-Lo Boat

  Henderson, Leah,

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  The Detroit River has seen a time before people and it has seen many faces cross its waters, from Indigenous people guiding canoes to settlers on its banks and freedom seekers riding the underground railroad north toward liberty, with Bob-Lo Island…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Teaching for Change

  How Septima Clark Led the Civil Rights Movement to Voting Justice

  Clark-Rhines, Yvonne,

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  This biography charts the monumental life of one tenacious woman--once referred to as The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.--who made it her mission to bring equity to literacy.

• This Skirt Won't Work!

  How Women Athletes Changed Their Clothes and Changed the Game

  Cooper, Jennifer, 1981-

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  "Imagine trying to play tennis in a long dress, or swimming laps wearing heavy petticoats! That's how it used to be for girls and women in sports... until a few found a better way."

• And She Was Loved

  Toni Morrison's Life in Stories

  Pinkney, Andrea Davis,

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  "From imaginative child to visionary storyteller, Toni Morrison was a fiercely inspiring writer that helped change the world."

• Claudia Said Sí!

  the Story of México's First Woman President

  Cohen, Deborah Bodin, 1968-

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  "Meet Mexico's first woman president. From social justice activist to Nobel-winning scientist to the first woman as well as the first Jewish president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum faces each new challenge by saying, "si!", "yes, I can."

• Birdlore

  the Iridescent Life of Florence Merriam Bailey

  Keating, Jess,

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  "Story about Florence Merriam Bailey the groundbreaking scientist who inspired a nation to take up bird-watching and worked tirelessly to protect our feathered friends."

• The Five Sides of Marjorie Rice

  How to Discover a Shape

  Alznauer, Amy,

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  As a little girl in Roseburg, Oregon, in the 1930s, Marjorie saw patterns everywhere. Marjorie dreamed of studying art and geometry, perhaps even solving the age-old "problem of five" (why pentagons don't fit together the way shapes with three,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Making Light Bloom

  Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Lamps

  Nickel, Sandra,

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  "The untold story of Clara Driscoll, a nature lover with the mind of a creative innovator and the unsung genius who designed and engineered the iconic Tiffany lamp."

• Revolutionary Mary

  the True Story of One Woman, the Declaration of Independence, and America's Fight for Freedom

  Blumenthal, Karen,

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  The story of Mary Katharine Goddard -- the only woman to sign her name on the Declaration of Independence.

• The High-flying, Deep-diving Adventures of Kathy Sullivan

  Stanley, Diane

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  "A biography of Kathy Sullivan, the first woman to walk in space and the only woman who has been to outer space and to the depths of the ocean"

• Rock Star

  How Ursula Marvin Mapped Moon Rocks and Meteorites

  Wallace, Sandra Neil,

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  "A biography of Ursula Marvin, who spent 50 years breaking barriers in science and becoming a pioneer among women reshaping American science."

• To the Top of the World

  Barbara Hillary, the First Black Woman to Reach the North and South Poles

  Blumenthal, Deborah,

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  "A nonfiction picture book biography about Barbara Hillary, the first Black woman to reach both the North and South Poles"