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Independent Dames: What You Never Knew about the Women and Girls of the American Revolution
by Laurie Hal Anderson  Publisher Comments Listen up! You've all heard about the great men who led and fought during the American Revolution; but did you know that the guys only make up part of the story? What about the women? The girls? The dames? Didn't they play a part? Of course they did, and...
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Abigail Adams: Girl of Colonial Days (Childhood of Famous Americans)
by Jean Brown Wagoner Publisher Comments Using simple language that beginning readers can understand, this lively, inspiring, and believable biography looks at the childhood of Abigail Adams. Illustrated throughout....
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Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator
by Shelley Tanaka Publisher Comments The ever-fascinating story of the legendary pilot is given new life in this vividly told true-life adventure. Ever since Amelia Earhart and her plane disappeared on July 2, 1937, people have wanted to know more about this remarkable woman. Amelia...
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Madam President: The Extraordinary, True (and Evolving) Story of Women in Politics
by Catherine Thimmesh Publisher Comments Catherine Thimmesh's inspiring look at the role of women in American politics--past, present, and future--is now available with updated sections on Hillary Rodham Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, and Nancy Pelosi. From the time our government was being formed,...
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Rigoberta Menchu: Defending Human Rights in Guatamala (Women Changing the World)
by Michael Silverstone Publisher Comments Now there is a series designed especially to introduce young people to women whose heroic lives have helped to shape our world. Informative, inspiring, and engaging, the series tells of extraordinary achievements women have made throughout the world and...
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Booty: Girl Pirates on the High Seas
by Sara Lorimer Publisher Comments A treasure trove of high adventure and bad behavior, Booty tells the all-true tales of real women pirates who prowled the seas from the 9th to early-20th centuries in search of easy prey and easy profit. Raiding ships, boozing, brawling, and looting...
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Women Daredevils: Thrills, Chills, and Frills
by Julie Cummins Publisher Comments Annie Edson Taylor went over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Mabel Stark wrestled with tigers. Sonora Webster Carver plummeted forty feet on horseback into a tank of water. These and the eleven other women profiled in this book performed between 1880 and 1929,...
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Alice Ramsey's Grand Adventure
by Don Brown Publisher Comments Brown pays tribute to the first woman to drive across the United States, an uncommonly daring feat in 1909 when there were no interstates, road maps, or gas stations. Full-color illustrations....
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Ruth Law Thrills a Nation
by Don Brown Publisher Comments In 1916 a young woman named Ruth Law attempted to fly from Chicago to New York City in one day--something no one else had ever done. This is the story of that daring attempt. Beautifully detailed watercolors dramatize a dangerous journey made by the...
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Susan B. Anthony: Champion of Women's Rights (Childhood of Famous Americans)
by Helen Albee Monsell Publisher Comments One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics of childhood have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. These lively, inspiring, believable biographies sweep today's young readers right into history....
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Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote
by Tanya Lee Stone Publisher Comments Elizabeth Cady Stanton stood up and fought for what she believed in. From an early age, she knew that women were not given rights equal to men. But rather than accept her lesser status, Elizabeth went to college and later gathered other like-minded women...
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The Fossil Girl: Mary Anning's Dinosaur Discovery
by Catherine Brighton Publisher Comments It's 1811. Ten-year-old Mary Anning, her brother Joe, and their widowed mother are eking out a meager existence running a little fossil shop in the seaside town of Lyme Regis. After a storm wipes out most of the shop's merchandise, Mary and Joe begin the...
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Lost Star: The Story of Amelia Earhart
by Patricia Lauber Publisher Comments A fascinating look at the life of a remarkable woman and the unsolved mystery surrounding her disappearance during her attempt to fly around the world in 1937. Photographs....
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Jane Addams (Community Builders)
by Charnan Simon Publisher Comments Each title in this series is a biography of a well-known person who has contributed to the economic and cultural growth of a town, city, or region. Sidebars with related Internet sites, organizations, and books for further information are included....
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The Bat-Chen Diaries (Israel)
by Bat Chen Shahak
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Girls Who Rocked the World
by Amelie Welden
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Christa Mcauliffe
by Corinne J Naden
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Gutsy Girls Young Women Who Dare
by Tina Schwager
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