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• Young and Restless

  the Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions

  Kahn, Mattie,

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  Kahn spotlights the activism of teen girls. From modern-day reformers like Greta Thunberg and Naomi Wadler to historical cohorts including the Lowell Mill girls, they are capable of lasting, progressive change. (Booklist Reviews)

• No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

  Thunberg, Greta, 2003-

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  In 2018, 15-year-old Greta Thunberg decided not to go to school in order to protest the climate crisis. The Nobel Peace Prize nominee collects her speeches delivered around the globe, from Capitol Hill to the United Nations.

• Vanguard

  How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

  Jones, Martha S.,

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  The suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, but it did not win the vote for most Black women. Securing their rights required their own movement.

• The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley

  a Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence

  Waldstreicher, David,

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  Waldstreicher unpeels the life of Black poet Phillis Wheatley, how her writing prompted arguments about race, subjugation, and British rule, and what it meant for the institution of slavery in colonial America. (Library Journal)

• The Book of Gutsy Women

  Clinton, Hillary Rodham,

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  Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them—women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done.

• After the Miracle

  the Political Crusades of Helen Keller

  Wallace, Max,

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  Wallace draws on groundbreaking research to reframe Helen Keller’s journey after the miracle at the water pump, vividly bringing to light her rarely discussed, lifelong fight for social justice across gender, class, race, and ability.

• The Agitators

  Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights

  Wickenden, Dorothy,

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  Wickenden's provocative history of abolition and women’s rights is told through the story of three women—Harriet Tubman, Frances Seward, and Martha Wright—in the years before, during, and after the Civil War.

• Suffrage

  Women's Long Battle for the Vote

  DuBois, Ellen Carol, 1947-

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  Published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, Ellen Carol DuBois's high-energy chronicle of the movement for women’s voting rights shares bold portraits of its devoted leaders and activists.

• Daughter of the Dragon

  Anna May Wong's Rendezvous With American History

  Huang, Yunte,

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  Huang shares how Anna May Wong fought the anti-Chinese xenophobia, sexism, cinematic exploitation, and ageism that defined American culture in the 20th century to become Hollywood’s first Chinese American film star.

• The Woman They Could Not Silence

  One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

  Moore, Kate (Writer and editor),

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  As the Civil War erupted, housewife and mother Elizabeth Packard was detained at the Jacksonville Insane Asylum for three years. Her crime? Daring to have an opinion in opposition to her husband’s narrow-minded beliefs.