Alabama Spitfire: The Story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird
Nelle Harper Lee grew up in the rocky red soil of Monroeville, Alabama. From the get-go she was a spitfire. Unlike most girls, Nelle preferred ove...
View full detailsNelle Harper Lee grew up in the rocky red soil of Monroeville, Alabama. From the get-go she was a spitfire. Unlike most girls, Nelle preferred ove...
View full detailsWhen Amelia was young, she liked to imagine she could stretch her wings and fly away like a bird. As a grown woman, she set a new female world reco...
View full detailsWhen Frida was a teenager, a terrible road accident changed her life forever. Unable to walk, she began painting from her bed. Her self-portraits, ...
View full detailsKamala Harris' life has been full of firsts, including becoming the first woman, African American, and South Asian American to be elected vice pres...
View full detailsWhen Malala was born in Mingora, Pakistan, her father was determined she would have every opportunity that a boy would have. She loved getting an e...
View full detailsMaria grew up in Italy at a time when girls didn't receive an equal education to boys. But Maria's mother was supportive of her dreams, and Maria w...
View full detailsWhen Marie was young, she was unable to go to college because she was a woman. But when she was older, her scientific work was respected around the...
View full detailsMaya Angelou spent much of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas. After a traumatic event at the age of eight, she stopped speaking for five years. How...
View full detailsLittle Michelle grew up on the South-Side of Chicago in a loving, connected family. After her father was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Michell...
View full detailsFollow la vida y el legado of Pura Belpré, the first Puerto Rican librarian in New York City. When she came to America in 1921, Pura carried the ...
View full detailsReady to Fly is the true story of Sylvia Townsend, an African American girl who falls in love with ballet after seeing Swan Lake on TV. Although t...
View full detailsRosa Parks grew up in Alabama, where she learned to stand up for herself at an early age. Rosa wont on to become a civil-rights activist whose cour...
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View full detailsAs a young person, little Ruth recognized injustice in the world. She decided to work to make her country a fairer place- for everyone. From her c...
View full detailsAt age fourteen, Hillary Clinton thought it would be thrilling to become an astronaut, so she sent an application to NASA. The reply was a flat out...
View full detailsReaders adore Judy Blume for her personal stories about the journey from childhood to adolescence. She has always been an imaginative person and an...
View full detailsOn November 7, 2020, Kamala Harris, a senator from California, became the first woman and the first African-American and South Asian-American perso...
View full detailsMalala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called att...
View full detailsBorn into a close knit family in Chicago, Michelle Robinson was a star student who graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law. Then in 1992, she marr...
View full detailsClarissa “Clara” Barton was a shy girl who grew up to become a teacher, nurse, and humanitarian. At a time when few women worked outside the home,...
View full detailsYou can always recognize a painting by Kahlo because she is in nearly all--with her black braided hair and colorful Mexican outfits. A brave woman ...
View full detailsAlthough Jane Austen's works were first published anonymously and brought her little personal recognition, today they are rarely out of print and h...
View full detailsBorn in Missouri in 1928, Maya Angelou had a difficult childhood. Jim Crow laws segregated blacks and whites in the South. Her family life was unst...
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