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1) Frida Kahlo
Author
Series
Publisher
World Book, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Discover how Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo, who was severely injured in a bus accident at age 18, taught herself to paint and became known for her striking self-portraits.
2) Nikola Tesla
Author
Series
Publisher
World Book, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A biography on the Serbian American inventor Nikola Tesla.
Author
Publisher
Quarry Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
She Can STEM highlights the curiosity, creativity, and perseverance of 50 leading historical and modern physicists, chemists, biologists, and ecologists, pairing each biography with a hands-on project.
5) Lebron James
Author
Series
Publisher
Black Rabbit Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Explores the basketball career of LeBron James with stats, charts, infographics, timelines, and strongly controlled text.
8) Maya Moore
Author
Series
Publisher
Black Rabbit Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Explores the basketball career of Maya Moore with stats, charts, infographics, timelines, and strongly controlled text.
9) Sacajawea
Author
Series
Publisher
Sunbird Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Sacajawea was a brilliant, multilingual Shoshone girl who was torn from her home at a young age. In 1804, she set out with the Lewis and Clark Expedition, acting as an interpreter and guide across hundreds of miles of unmapped land to reach the Pacific Ocean. Almost 200 years later, she became the first Indigenous woman to appear on a US coin. This is her story.
11) Serena Williams
Author
Series
Publisher
Black Rabbit Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Explores the tennis career of Serena Williams with stats, charts, infographics, timelines, and strongly controlled text.
12) Carli Lloyd
Author
Series
Publisher
Black Rabbit Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Explores the soccer career of Carli Lloyd with stats, charts, infographics, timelines, and strongly controlled text.
13) Dak Prescott
Author
Series
Publisher
World Book
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Explores the football career of Dak Prescott with stats, charts, infographics, timelines, and strongly controlled text.
15) Susan B. Anthony
Author
Series
Publisher
World Book, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A biography on the American women's rights leader Susan B. Anthony.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Before Marie Curie was the first woman in France to earn the highest degree in physics, before she discovered two new radioactive elements, and became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (and then the first person to win two!)-- she was a little girl named Marie Sklodowska who dreamed of being a scientist--and was determined to make that dream come true.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Sarah Brenner was always one of a kind, even with four sisters who dressed just like her. Growing up in an immigrant family on New York City's imporverished Lower East Side, Sarah's life was full of things that weren't fair. It wasn't fair that her parents had to leave Europe because of their religion. It wasn't fair they worked hard all day and the family barely had enough to eat. It wasn't fair how girls were treated in her school. When she grew...
Author
Series
Publisher
Norton Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Continuing this propulsive middle grade nonfiction series, a young woman once persecuted by the Taliban shares her journey to becoming a community activist. As a girl and as part of an ethnic minority in Afghanistan, Freshta Tori Jan was persecuted relentlessly. Her family faced kidnappings and daily murder attempts on the bus, on the way to school, in the workplace, and beyond. Freshta's school was shut down by the Taliban, and many of her friends...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Long before she became known as the Cactus Queen, Minerva Hamilton Hoyt found solace in the unexpected beauty of the Mojave Desert in California. She loved the jackrabbits and coyotes, the prickly cacti, and especially the weird, spiky Joshua trees. However, in the 1920s, hardly anyone else felt the same way. The desert was being thoughtlessly destroyed by anyone and everyone. Minerva knew she needed to bring attention to the problem. With the help...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
From bestselling and award-winning author-illustrator Marissa Moss, praised for her accessible blend of narrative nonfiction with graphic novel-style chapter openers in The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner, comes another fascinating story of a groundbreaking woman in STEM. One of the founders of U.S. cryptology who would eventually become one of the world's greatest code breakers, Elizebeth Smith Friedman (1892-1980) was a brilliant...
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