Women’s History Month: Real Stories of Real Gals

March is Women’s History Month and what better way to mark the occasion than to read about the lives of real girls and real women?  Who will you celebrate?

Mer’s Real Stories of Real Gals Picks:

• My Thirteenth Winter: A Memoir by Samantha Abeel
• Jane Addams: Champion of Democracy by Judith Bloom Fradin & Dennis Brindell Fradin
• With Courage & Cloth: Winning the Fight for Woman’s Right to Vote by Ann Bausum
• The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful and (HIV) Positive by Marvelyn Brown

• Catherine the Great: Empress of Russia by Zu Vincent
• Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
• Model: A Memoir by Cheryl Diamond
• Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography by Sid Jacobson & Ernie Colón

• A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman by Sharon Rudahl
• I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler’s List Survivor by Laura Hillman
• Iraqigirl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq edited by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
• Lessons in Taxidermy by Bee Lavender

• I am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields
• I Want to Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin’s Russia by Nina Lugovskaya
• Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey by Rachel Simon
• Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood by Jennifer Traig

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