Book Suggestions for Display or Gifts
In Celebration of International Day of the Girl – October 11th (Eleanor’s Birthday)
Heroes
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50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet by Dennis Denenberg & Lorraine Roscoe
Lives of Extraordinary Women-Rulers, Rebels (and What the Neighbors Thought) by K. Krull & K. Hewitt
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way by Robin Gerber
My Year with Eleanor by Noelle Hancock
Our Eleanor – A Scrapbook Look at ER’s Remarkable Life by Candace Fleming
With Love, Aunt Eleanor by Eleanor Roosevelt II
Eleanor Roosevelt-An Inspiring Life: by Elizabeth MacLeod
TIME Biographies for Kids – “Eleanor Roosevelt - First Lady of the World”
Eleanor Roosevelt – A photographic story of a life by Kem Knapp Sawyer
Hot Dog!-Eleanor Roosevelt Throws a Picnic by Leslie Kimmelman
A Picture Book of Eleanor Roosevelt by David Adler
Eleanor Roosevelt – Fighting for Social Justice by Ann Weil
A Letter to Ms. Roosevelt by C. Coco de Young
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt? By Gare Thompson
Hot Dog! Eleanor Roosevelt Throws a Picnic
Mary McLeod Bethune
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Mary McLeod Bethune by Susan Evento (Rookie Biographies by Scholastic)
Mary McLeod Bethune by Eloise Greenfield, Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
International
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Half the Sky and A Path Appears by N. Kristof & S. WuDunn
We Are All Born Free – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Pictures
The Trouble with the Alphabet-Through the Eyes of Innocence by Caryn West
We Dream of a World by Pershing School in University City, Missouri
For Every Child – Rights of the Child in Words & Pictures – text by Carolyn Castle
If the World were a Village – A Book about the World’s People by David J. Smith
Global Baby – Girls – The Global Fund for Children
Girls
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My First Book of Girl Power by DC Comics
Keep Climbing, Girls by Beah E. Richards
Rosie Revere Engineer by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts
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Extraordinary Girls by Maya Ajmera, Olateju Omolodun & Sarah Strunk
GIRLS A to Z by Eve Bunting, illustrated by Suzanne Bloom
Girls Think of Everything - Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women by C. Thimmesh, Illustrated by M. Sweet
Girls Who Looked Under Rocks – The Lives of Six Pioneering Naturalists: by Jeannine Atkins & Paula Conner
Girls Who Rocked the World – Heroines from Joan of Arc to Mother Teresa by M. R. McCann & A. Welden
Girls are not Chicks Coloring Book by Jacinta Bunnell & Julie Novak
Rebel in a Dress Adventures by Sylvia Branzei
Mia Hamm – Winners Never Quit by Carol Thompson
Book Suggestions for Display or Gifts
In Celebration of International Day of the Girl – October 11th (Eleanor’s Birthday)
Strong Female Role Models in Folklore
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“Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters – Heroines in Folktales from Around the World” by Kathleen
Ragan
“The Best of Girls to the Rescue – Tales of Clever, Courageous Girls from Around the World” selected by Bruce
Lansky
“Fiesta Femenina – Celebrating Women in Mexican Folktale” retold by Mary-Joan Gerson, illustrated by Maya
Christina Gonzalez
“Princess Smartypants” by Babette Cole
“The Paper Bag Princess” by Robert Munch, illustrated by Michael Martchenko
“The Princess Knight” by Cornelia Funke & Kerstin Meyer
“Betsy Who Cried Wolf” by Gail Carson Levine, illustrated by Scott Nash
“The Brave Little Seamstress” by Mary Pope Osborne, Illustrated by Giselle Potter
Books about Malala
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Dear Malala, We Stand with You by Rosemary Mc Carney with Plan International
Malala - A Brave Girl from Pakistan by Jeanette Winter
Malala Yousafzai – Warrior with Words by Karen L. Abouraya
I am Malala – The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
with Christine Lamb
I Am Malala – How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young readers Edition) by
Malala Yousafzai with Patricia McCormick
I am Malala: Support Us in Our Fight by James Lee Anderson