| Description |
viii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"Portions of this work were previously published in an earlier edition of Girls Who Rocked the World and in Girls Who Rocked the World 2." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Hatshepsut : Pharaoh -- The Trung sisters : warrior queens -- Joan of Arc : warrior and saint -- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz : scholar and poet -- Laura Bassi : physicist -- Eliza Lucas Pinckney : agricultural entrepreneur -- Phillis Wheatley : poet -- Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun : painter -- Maria Theresia von Paradis : pianist and composer -- Sacagawea : guide and interpreter -- Mary Anning : Fossil hunter -- The Brontë sisters (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne) : authors -- Florence Nightingale : nurse -- Harriet Tubman : abolitionist -- Margaret Knight : inventor -- Anna Elizabeth Dickinson : orator, abolitionist, and suffragette -- Sarah Bernhardt : actress -- Edmonia Lewis : sculptor -- Emma Lazarus : poet -- Helen Keller : writer and advocate -- Anna Pavlova : ballerina -- Coco Chanel : fashion designer -- Bessie Smith : singer -- Irène Joliot-Curie : chemist -- Marian Anderson : singer -- Golda Meir : prime minister -- Queen Sālote Tupou III : queen -- Frida Kahlo : painter -- Mother Teresa : missionary -- Mary Leakey : archaeologist and anthropologist -- Jackie Mitchell : athlete -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias : athlete -- Indira Gandhi : prime minister -- Eva "Evita" Perón : actress and politician -- Anne Frank : diarist -- Wilma Rudolph : athlete -- The Night Witches : fighter pilots -- Temple Grandin : scientist, inventor, and advocate -- Susan Eloise (S. E.) Hinton : novelist -- Adriana Ocampo : planetary geologist -- Amatalrauf al-Sharki (Raufa Hassan) : journalist and activist -- Rigoberta Menchú : activist -- Maya Lin : architect -- Midori Goto : violinist -- Natalie Portman : actress -- Ashley Rhodes-Courter : author and advocate. |
| Summary |
Meet forty-six movers and shakers who made their mark before age twenty. |
| Audience |
1070L Lexile |
| Note |
1070L Lexile |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader MG 8.3 11 155778 |
| Note |
Accelerated Reader MG 8.3 11 155778 |
| Subject |
Girls -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Women heroes -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Heroes -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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| Added Author |
Welden, Amelie, 1975-
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| ISBN |
9781582703022 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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1582703027 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9781582703619 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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1582703612 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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