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Women's History Month Titles

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Aani and the Tree Huggers by Jeannine Atkins and Venantius J. Pinto, ill. New York: Lee & Low, 1995.

Alias Mission: saving the books of Iraq by Mark Alan Stamaty. New York: Knopf, 2004.

Amazing true story of a teenage single mom, The by Katherine Arnoldi. New York: Hyperion, 1998.

Amelia and Eleanor go for a Ride by Pam Munoz Ryan and Brian Selznick, ill. New York: Scholastic Press, 1999.

Amelia to Zora: twenty-six women who changed the world by Cynthia Chin Lee; Megan Halsey and Sean Addy, ills. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 2005.

 Anne Frank by Josephine Poole and Angela Barrett, ill.  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

Anne Frank_ by Etsuo Suzuki and Yoko Miyawaki. Gardenia, CA: Digital Manga Publishing, 2006.

Art from Her Heart:  Folk Artist Clementine Hunter by Kathy Whitehead and Shane W. Evans, ill.  NY:  G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2008.

Boycott Blues: how Rosa Parks inspired a nation by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney, ill. New York: Amistad, 2008.

Burnout by Rebecca Donner and Inaki Miranda, ill, New York: Minx, 2008.

Corettaby Ntozake Shange and Kadir Nelson, Ill.  New York: Amistad, 2009.

Daddy’s Girl by Debbie Drechsler. Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books, 2008.

Dangerous Woman, A: the graphic biography of Emma Goldman by Sharon Rudahl. New York: The New Press, 2007.

Eleanor by Barbara Cooney. New York: Viking, 1996.

Eleanor, Quiet No More by Doreen Rappaport and Gary Kelley, ill. New York: Hyperion, 2009.

French Milk by Lucy Knisley. New York: Touchstone, 2007.

Frida: Long Live Life! by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand.New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2007.

Frida Kahlo: the artist in the blue house by Magdalena Holzhey. New York: Prestel, 2007. 

Fly High! the story of Bessie Coleman by Louise Borden, Mary Kay Kroeger and Teresa Flavin, ill. New York: Margaret K. McElderry, 2001.

Gone is gone, or, the story of the man who wanted to do houseworkby Wanda Ga'g. Minneapolis:  University of Minnesota Press, 2003.

Harriet and the promised land by Jacob Lawrence. New York: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1993.

Helen Keller, her life in pictures by George Sullivan. New York: Scholastic, 2007.

Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told by Walter Dean Myers and Bonnie Christensen,ill. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.  978-0-06-027706-2

If a Bus Could Talkby Faith Ringgold. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.

Independent Dames by Laurie Halse Anderson and Matt Faulkner, ill. New York: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2008.

Julia Morgan Built a Castle by Celeste Mannis and Miles Hyman, ill. New York: Viking, 2006.

Librarian of Basra, The by Jeanette Winter. San Diego, CA: Harcourt, 2004.

Library for Juana, A: the world of Sor Juana Ines by Pat Mora and Beatriz Vidal, ill. New York: Knopf, 2002.

Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight became an inventor by Emily Arnold McCully. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2006.

Megillat Esther by J.T. Waldman.  Jewish Publication Society of America, 2006.  978-0827607880

Mendel's Daughter by Martin Lemelman. Free Press, 2007. 978-1416552215

Mighty Jackie: the Strike Out Queen by Marissa Moss and C.F. Payne, ill. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.

Miss Crandalls School for Young Ladies & Little Misses of Color by Elizabeth Alexander, Marilyn Nelson, and Floyd Cooper, ill. Honesdale, PA: Wordsong, 2007. 

Molly Bannaky by Alice McGill and Chris Soentpiet, ill. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999

Of Numbers and Stars: the story of Hypatia by D. Anne Love and Pam Paparone, ill. New York: Holiday House, 2006.

 

No Girls Allowed: tales of daring women dressed as men for love, freedom, and adventure by Susan Hughes and Willow Dawson, ill. Tonawanda, NY: Kids Can Press, 2008.

Nobody Particular: One Woman's Fight to Save the Bays by Molly Bang. New York: Henry Holt, 2001.

One special summer by Jacqueline and Lee Bouvier.  New York:  Rizzoli International Publications, 2006.

Patience Wright: America's first sculptor, and revolutionary spy by Pegi Deitz Shea and Bethanne Andersen, ill. New York: Henry Holt, 2007.

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. New York: Pantheon, 2003.

Persepolis II by Marjane Satrapi. New York: Pantheon, 2004.

 

Philliss Big Test by Catherine Clinton and Sean Qualls, ill. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.

Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai by Claire A. Nivola. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008.

Priscilla and the hollyhocks by Anne Broyles and Anna Alter, ill. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 2008.

Rubys Wish by Shirin Yim Bridges and Sophie Blackall. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2002.

Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth by Anne Rockwell and Gregory Christie, ill. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.

Shes Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head! by Kathryn Lasky and David Catrow, ill. New York: Hyperion, 1995.

Stitchin and pullin: a Gees Bend Quilt by Patricia C. McKissack and Cozbi A. Cabrera, ill. New York: Random House, 2008.

Story of Ruby Bridges, The by Robert Coles and George Ford, ill. New York: Scholastic: 1995.

Through my eyes by Ruby Bridges. New York: Scholastic Press, 1999.

Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa by Don Brown.  New York:  Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

What to Do About Alice? by Barbara Kerley and Edwin Fotheringham, ill.New York: Scholastic: 2008.

When Harriet Met Sojourner by Catherine Clinton and Shane W. Evans, ill. New York: Amistad, 2007.                        When Marian sang: the true recital of Marian Anderson: the voice of a century by Pam Munoz Ryan and Brian Selznick, ill. New York: Scholastic Press, 2002.

Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Randolph Became the World's Fastest Woman by Kathleen Krull and David Diaz, ill. San Diego, CA: Harcourt, 1996.

Woman for President, A: the Story of Victoria Woodhull by Kathleen Krull and Jane Dyer, ill. New York: Walker, 2004.

Women Daredevils by Julie Cummins and Cheryl Harness, ill. New York: Dutton, 2008.

Yours for Justice, Ida B Wellsby Philip Dray and Stephen Alcorn, ill. Atlanta: Peachtree Press, 2008.

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