Learn about the first woman student at MIT—a pioneering environmental chemist — in The Girl Who Tested the Waters: Ellen Swallow, Environmental Scientist, by Patricia Daniele and Junyi Wu.
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Learn the story of the first American woman to fly to space in I am Sally Ride, the 35th hero in the Ordinary People Change the World series by Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos.
The Six —Young Readers Edition: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts, by Loren Grush and Rebecca Stefoff, explores America’s first women in space.
Meet three women who followed their scientific dreams in Green Promises: Girls Who Loved the Earth, by Jeannine Atkins.
Black Artists Shaping the World, by Sharna Jackson and Marilyn Esther Chi, includes 14 stories of the lives and works of Black artists.
Learn about civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. in You Are a Star, Martin Luther King, Jr., by Dean Robbins and Anastasia Magloire Williams.
Learn about black fashion icon and design pioneer Zelda Wynn Valdes in Dazzling Zelda, a picture book biography by Aura Lewis and Farai Simoyi.
Learn about creative genius Edward Gorey in As Edward Imagined: A Story of Edward Gorey in Three Acts, by Matthew Burgess and Marc Majewski.
Ode to Grapefruit: How James Earl Jones Found His Voice tells the story of how the famous actor overcame his stuttering to become one of the best-known voices in the world.
Discover the story of one of the most beloved children’s book authors in The Secret Gardens of Frances Hodgson Burnett.