Angie Bastian: Boomchickapop Boss (Female Foodies)
by Rebecca Felix
Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography (Little House)
by William Anderson
As a young girl growing up in Kenya, Wangari was surrounded by trees. But years later when she returns home, she is shocked to see whole forests being cut down, and she knows that soon all the trees will be destroyed. So Wangari decides to do something - and starts by planting nine seedlings in her own backyard. And as they grow, so do her plans...
Back in 1909, not far from Jackson, Mississippi, Dr. Laurence Clifton Jones opened a special place for orphans named Piney Woods Country Life School. Dr. Jones loved music and wanted the children to love it too. In 1939 he started a school band that was just for girls, and he called it the Sweethearts. The music the girls played was called swing. It had rhythms and melodies that got people up on their feet to dance. And like all good music, it told stories about how it feels to be alive. After...
Jane Goodall: Primatologist and Conservationist (Women in Science)
by Michael Capek
Malorie Blackman Biography (Black Star, #2)
by Verna Allette Wilkins
Malorie Blackman is a highly successful children's author with over fifty books to her name. She began by studying business before moving on to computing. By her early thirties she had realised her dream of being a full time writer of both books and TV dramas.
"Presents the biography of Eva PerĂ³n against the backdrop of her political, historical, and cultural environment"--Provided by publisher.
Rosa Parks (Historical Figures) (Icons: History Makers)
by Ruth Daly
Even at the age of nine, Golda Meir was a leader. As president of the American Young Sisters Society, she organizes her friends to raise money to buy textbooks for immigrant classmates. A glimpse at the early life of Israel s first female Prime Minister. Full-Color Illustrations, Full-Color Photographs, Famous People. Nine-year-old Golda Meir, who would become Israel's first woman prime minister, uses her leadership skills to organize her friends in the American Young Sisters Society to raise m...
Marie Curie, the woman who coined the term radioactivity, won not just one Nobel Prize but two?in physics and chemistry, both supposedly girl-phobic sciences.
Biographies for Kids - All About Rosa Parks the Civil Rights
by Baby Professor
This year Queen Elizabeth II enjoys 60 glorious years as monarch with a Diamond Jubilee celebration to be held on 5th June 2012. Queen Elizabeth II, Her Story recounts the life of our Queen from her birth to present day. It is the story of a princess who became Queen and head of the Royal House of Windsor. * Birth of a Princess * The Little Princesses * Life in the Palace * Princess at War * Elizabeth becomes Queen * The Royla Family * Royal Duties * The Royal family Tree Early photographs captu...
Combining the romance and enchantment of princesses with a message of youthful female empowerment, these books are about girls who didn't just sit around waiting to be rescued. Against great odds, they changed their own lives--and their worlds. Stories of princesses from different cultures and different epochs in history are richly illustrated with photographs, maps, and lovely pen-and-watercolor paintings that help bring these fascinating females to life. In what could be a tale from The Arab...
What makes a writer? What inspires them? Where do their stories come from? Striking illustrations and a popular graphic novel format bring to life this anthology of literary legends and their childhoods. Featuring beloved authors such as Maya Angelou, C.S. Lewis, Gene Luen Yang and J.K. Rowling, these stories capture the childhood triumphs, failures, and inspirations that predated their careers. Children ages ten and up will see themselves in these humanised portraits and wonder if they, too, m...