Books, Games & Puzzles

I can hear change hummingIn its loudest, proudest song.I don't fear change coming,And so I sing along. In this stirring, much anticipated picture b...

Although her family and friends know her as Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso, the world refers to her simply as Celia Cruz. Starting...

Private and bookish, Jackie Kennedy found herself thrust into the world spotlight as the young and glamorous wife of the President John F. Kennedy....

Clarissa “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,...

Born in 1729, Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbs was never supposed to come to power. But at age sixteen, she married the heir to the Russian throne. ...

Born a humble girl in what is now Albania, Agnes Bojaxhiu lived a charitable life. She pledged herself to a religious order at the age of 18 and ch...

Although Jane Austen's works were first published anonymously and brought her little personal recognition, today they are rarely out of print and h...

On November 7, 2020, Kamala Harris, a senator from California, became the first woman and the first African-American and South Asian-American perso...

Born a slave in Maryland, Harriet Tubman knew first-hand what it meant to be someone's property; she was whipped by owners and almost killed by an ...

Born 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...

In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights prote...

As 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...

Rosa 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...

Maya 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...

When 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...

Maria 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...

When 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...

Born 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...

Readers adore Judy Blume for her personal stories about the journey from childhood to adolescence. She has always been an imaginative person and an...

At 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...

Women around the world have long dreamed big, even when they've been told their dreams didn't matter. They've spoken out, risen up and fought for w...

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...

Follow 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 ...

Ready 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...