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(0)Jeannine Atkins
Author
Language
English
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Description
May Alcott spends her days sewing blue shirts for Union soldiers, but she dreams of painting a masterpiece -- which many say is impossible for a woman -- and of finding love, too. When she reads her sister's wildly popular novel, Little Women, she is stung by Louisa's portrayal of her as "Amy," the youngest of four sisters who trades her desire to succeed as an artist for the joys of hearth and home. Determined to prove her talent, May makes plans...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a child, Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled across the prairie in a covered wagon. Her daughter, Rose, thought those stories might make a good book, and the two created the beloved Little House series.
Sara Breedlove, the daughter of former slaves, wanted everything to be different for her own daughter, A'Lelia. Together they built a million-dollar beauty empire for women of color. Marie Curie became the first person in history to win two Nobel prizes...
5) Robin's home
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Robin learns how to fly and build a nest. Includes information on the life cycle of robins.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A biographical novel in verse about Lise Meitner, an Austrian Jew and physics professor in Nazi Germany who escaped to Sweden and whose work led to the discovery of nuclear fission. Includes author's note and timeline.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Tells the stories of women who have dared to challenge prejudices and rules to take their place in the skies--from Katherine Wright and Bessie Coleman to Jackie Cochran, Shannon Lucid, and Eileen Collins.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Profiles twelve women explorers of the land, sea, and air: Jeanne Baret, Florence Baker, Annie Smith Peck, Josephine Peary, Arnarulunguaq, Elisabeth Casteret, Nicole Maxwell, Sylvia Earle, Junko Tabei, Kay Cottee, Sue Hendrickson, and Ann Bancroft.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"A biographical novel in verse of a half Native American, half African American female sculptor, Edmonia Lewis, working in the years right after the Civil War"--
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Relates events in author Louisa May Alcott's tenth year, 1843, when her family moved from Boston to a farm where, along with an odd assortment of idealists, they try to establish a community based on equality and love.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Based on true events in India in the 1970s, young Aani and the other women in her village defend their forest from developers by wrapping their arms around the trees, making it impossible to cut them down.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A biographical novel in verse of seven girls from different time periods who used math to explore the mysteries of the universe and grew up to do innovate work that changed history.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized episode from the life of Anne Hutchinson, who arrived with her family in Massachusetts in 1634, but was soon banished for holding religious meetings and teaching ideas with which Puritan ministers disagreed.