Marie Curie
When 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 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 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 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 detailsWe all know Oprah Winfrey as a talk-show host, actress, producer, media mogul, and philanthropist, but the "Queen of Talk" wasn't always so fortuna...
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 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 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 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 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 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 detailsFeaturing the true stories of 35 women creators, ranging from writers to inventors, artists to scientists, Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Aroun...
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