March is Women’s History Month, a time to reflect on the struggles and accomplishments women made throughout history, and to read stories depicting female empowerment.
Anthologies
Rad American Women A-Z by Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl
Little Book of Feminist Saints by Julia Pierpont
Artists, Creators, and Musicians
Bon Appetit! The Delicious life of Julia Child by Jessie Hartland
Dancing Hands: how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln by Margarita Engle and Rafael López
Ella Fitzgerald: the Tale of a vocal virtuosa by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Frida by Jonah Winter
Harlem’s Little Blackbird by Renée Watson
Hot Pink: the life and fashions of Elsa Schiaparelli by Susan Goldman Rubin
Imogen by Amy Novesky
Lily Renée, escape artist: from Holocaust survivor to comic book pioneer by Trina Robbins
Through Georgia’s Eyes by Rachel Rodriguez
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the power of a protest Song by Gary Golio
You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer!: a very improper story by Shana Corey and Chesley McLaren
Social Justice and Civil Rights Activists
Being Jazz by Jazz Jennings
Clara Barton by Kathleen Deady (nurse/red cross)
Fight of the Century: Alice Paul battles Woodrow Wilson for the vote by Barb Rosenstock and Sarah Green
History Smashers: Women’s Right to Vote by Kate Messner
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Lift As You Climb: the story of Ella Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell and R. Gregory Christie (soon to be on order)
Noisemakers: 25 women who raised their voices and changed the world – a graphic collection from Kazoo edited by Erin Bried
Only Passing through: the story of Sojourner Truth by Anne F. Rockwell
On Our Way to Oyster Bay: Mother Jones and her march for children’s rights by Monica Kulling and Felicita Sala
Red Scarf Girl: a memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer by Carole Boston Weatherford
Politicians and Judges
Eleanor Roosevelt Fighter for Justice by Ilene Cooper
Elizabeth Warren: Nevertheless, She Persisted by Susan Wood
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes her mark by Debbie Levy and Elizabeth Baddeley
Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice by Nikki Grimes
Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Jonah Winter
The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor by Sonia Sotomayor
What do you do with a voice like that? by Chris Barton
Inventors, Scientists, and Mathematicians
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Nothing Stopped Sophie: the story of unshakable mathematician Sophie Germain by Cheryl Bardoe and Barbara McClintock
Book
Temple Grandin by Sy Montgomery
Marie Curie by Leonard Everett Fisher
Marvelous Mattie: how Margaret E. Knight became an inventor by Emily Arnold McCully
Sally Ride: a photo biography of America’s pioneering women in Space by Tam E. O’Shaughnessy
The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s life with the chimps by Jeanette Winter
Dancers, Athletes and Aviators
Amelia Lost by Candace Fleming
Breaking Through: how female athletes shattered stereotypes in the roaring twenties by Sue Macy and Muffet McGraw
(soon to be on order)
Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Proud: Living My American Dream by Ibtihaj Muhammad
Rising Above: Inspiring Women in Sports by Gregory Zuckerman
Talkin’ ’bout Bessie: the story of aviator Bessie Coleman by Nikki Grimes
Tallchief: America’s Prima Ballerina by Maria Tallchief and Rosemary Wells and Gary Kelley
Tillie the Terrible Swede: how one woman, a sewing needle, and a bicycle changed history by Sue Stauffacher and Sarah McMenemy
Strong Female Stories in YA
Audacity by Melanie Crowder
Because I Was a Girl by Melissa De la Cruz
Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy
Girls Write Now: Two Decades of True Stories from Young Female Voices
I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez
Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson
A Tyranny of Petticoats: 15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers & Other Badass Girls by Jessica Spotswood
Watch Us Rise by Renée Watson