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 detailsGrowing up with a speech impediment and an auditory processing disorder, Amanda had hills to climb. Through poetry, she found her voice, and became...
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 detailsFeaturing the true stories of 35 women creators, ranging from writers to inventors, artists to scientists, Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Aroun...
View full detailsAs a kid, Mae looked up at the stars and knew that she would go there one day. But she couldn't understand why there weren't any astronauts who loo...
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 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 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...
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 detailsMeet History's trailblazers and get inspired by the true stories of people who changed the world. In August, 2016, American gymnast Simone Biles wo...
View full detailsOn June 26, 2018, twenty-eight-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a bartender from New York City, became the youngest woman ever elected to serve o...
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 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 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 detailsPrivate and bookish, Jackie Kennedy found herself thrust into the world spotlight as the young and glamorous wife of the President John F. Kennedy....
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