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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of how women throughout the ages have responded to situations confronting them in daily life by inventing such items as correction fluid, space helmets, and disposable diapers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A collection of artworks inspired by the lives and achievements of fifty famous women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, from the ancient world to the present, profiles each notable individual.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Profiles the lives of twenty-six women who, through their acts and deeds, helped shape and change the world during their lifetime, including pilot Amelia Earhart and anthropologist Zora Neal Hurston.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Traces the childhood, friendships and dangers experienced by Buffalo Bird Woman, a Hidatsa Indian born in 1839, whose community along the Missouri River in the Dakotas transitioned from hunting to agriculture.
8) Sacagawea
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Shoshone girl, Sacagawea, from age eleven when she was kidnapped by the Hitdatsa to the end of her journey with Lewis and Clark, plus speculation about her later life.
12) Pocahontas
Author
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the life and achievements of Coretta Scott King, discussing her vital role in the Civil Rights Movement, her awareness campaigns, and her efforts to continue the work of her husband, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Each letter of the alphabet is represented by an important woman in the history of the United States, as well as others in her same field of accomplishment.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Presents an account of frontier life for women in the American West through brief biographies of six famous individuals, including Calamity Jane, Molly Brown, Belle Starr, Pearl Hart, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Annie Oakley.
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