The {Ultimate} Guide to Great Books for Strong Girls

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strong girls readingIn our house, we don’t believe that by elevating women we are dragging men low. My husband and son love reading about these strong women who changed the course of history just as much as my girls and I love them. We love reading these stories all year long, but if you haven’t run across these beautiful biographies of courageous women, then take March — the official Women’s History Month — to curate your strong girls book collection.

Here are 13 books about amazing women to check out from your local bookstore or library.

 

Louisa: The Life of Louisa May Alcott  by Yona Zeldis McDonough

about Louisa May Alcott – An American abolitionist, novelist and poet most famous for Little Women

 

 Firebird by Misty Copeland

about Misty Copeland – The first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer at the American Ballet Company

 

I am Amelia Earhart (Ordinary People Change the World) by Brad Meltzer

about Amelia Earhart – The first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

 

Corretta Scott by Ntozake Shange

about Corretta Scott King – helped lead the Civil Rights Movement 

 

Look Up by Robert Burleigh

about Henrietta Leavitt – A Harvard-Educated astronomer/scientist in the 1890’s (when women were not allowed to operate a telescope)

 

Ballots for Belva by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen 

about Belva Lockwood – One of the first female lawyers in the US, a suffragist, and educator

 

Miss Moore Thought Otherwise by Jan Pinborough

about Anne Carroll Moore – Advocate for children’s libraries

 

Elizabeth Leads the Way by Tanya Lee Stone

about Elizabeth Cady Stanton – A leading figure of the Women’s Rights Movement

 

Sojourner’s Truth Step Stomp Stride by Andrea Davis Pinkney

about Sojourner Truth – American abolitionist and advocate

 

Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford

about Harriet Tubman – Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and helped ~70 others escape slavery and find jobs

 

Malala Youfsazi: Warrior with Words by  Karen Leggett Abouraya

about Malala Yousafzai – A Pakistani activist and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate

 

Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women

by Catherine Thimmesh

 

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers who Changed the World

by Rachel Ignotofsky

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