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Are you up to date on the latest and greatest achievements by women? How about the oldest and boldest? Update your knowledge with the biographies below for Women's History Month!

Palo Alto City Library

21 items

  • A Face for Picasso

    Coming of Age With Crouzon Syndrome

    Henley, Ariel, 1991-
    BookNew York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2021. — TEEN 617.52 HENLEY
  • Girl Squads

    20 Female Friendships That Changed History

    Maggs, Sam,
    BookPhiladelphia : Quirk Books, [2018] — TEEN 302.3408 MAGGS
  • Bygone Badass Broads

    52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World

    Lee, Mackenzi,
    BookNew York : Abrams Image, 2018. — TEEN 920.72 LEE
  • The Radium Girls

    the Scary but True Story of the Poison That Made People Glow in the Dark

    Moore, Kate (Writer and editor),
    BookNaperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks eXplore, [2020] — TEEN 363.1799 MOORE
  • You Don't Have to Be Everything

    Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves

    BookNew York : Workman Publishing, [2021] — TEEN 808.8192 YOU
  • Our Stories, Our Voices

    21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America

    BookNew York : Simon Pulse, 2018. — TEEN 305.4209 OUR
  • In Good Hands

    Remarkable Female Politicians From Around the World Who Showed Up, Spoke Out and Made Change

    MacKendrick, Stephanie,
    BookToronto : KCP Loft, 2020. — TEEN 320.082 MACKENDR
  • On Top of Glass

    My Stories as a Queer Girl in Figure Skating

    Manta, Karina, 1996-
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2021] — TEEN 796.912 MANTA
  • Lifting as We Climb

    Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box

    Dionne, Evette,
    BookNew York : Viking, [2020] — TEEN 323.34 DIONNE
  • I Have the Right to

    a High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope

    Prout, Chessy,
    BookNew York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2018] — TEEN 362.883 PROUT
  • Graphic NovelNew York : Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021] — TEEN GN HUDA
  • Headstrong

    52 Women Who Changed Science-- and the World

    Swaby, Rachel
    BookNew York : Broadway Books, [2015] — 509.252 SWABY
  • To Fly Among the Stars

    the Hidden Story of Flight for Women Astronauts

    Rissman, Rebecca,
    BookNew York : Scholastic Focus, [2020] — TEEN 629.45 RISSMAN
  • Graphic NovelChicago, IL : Iron Circus Comics, 2020. — TEEN GN 363.3109 KIM
  • A Thousand Sisters

    the Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II

    Wein, Elizabeth,
    BookNew York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — TEEN 940.5449 WEIN
  • Wonder Women

    25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

    Maggs, Sam,
    BookPhiladelphia : Quirk Books, [2016] — 609.22 MAGGS
  • Atomic Women

    the Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb

    Montillo, Roseanne,
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — TEEN 355.8251 MONTILLO
  • Brazen

    Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World

    Bagieu, Pénélope,
    Graphic NovelNew York : First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press, 2018. — TEEN GN 920.72 BAGIEU