Women’s History Month
These are just a few of the many amazing biographies available about women in history! Take a look at the A Might Girl website for a much more comprehensive list of biographies about strong women in history. Learn about some of the women who made a difference in this world during Women’s History Month!
- Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World by Sy Montgomery
- Taking Flight by Michaela DePrince
- Radioactive: How Irène Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World by Winifred Conkling
- Jars of Hope by Jennifer Roy
- Queen of the Falls by Chris Van Allsburg
- Nurse Soldier Spy: The Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero by Marisa Moss
- Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine by Laurie Wallmark
- Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music by Margarita Engle
- Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell
- Untamed: The World of Jane Goodall by Anita Silvey
- I Am Rosa Parks by Brad Meltzer
- Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford
- Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone
- Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford
- One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia by Miranda Paul
- Girls Who Rocked the World: Heroines from Joan of Arc to Mother Teresa by Michelle Roehm McCann
- Rad American Women A – Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries who Shaped Our History . . . and Our Future! by Kate Schatz
- Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming
- Brave Girl: Clara Lemlich and the Shirtwaist Makers by Michelle Markel
- Who Was Anne Frank? by Ann Abramson
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
- Remember the Ladies by Cheryl Harness
- Smile by Raina Telgemeier
- El Deafo by Cece Bell