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Women’s History Month: Real Stories of Real Women

Submitted by Mer L. [1] on Tue, 03/23/2010 - 3:32pm

March is Women’s History Month [2] and what better way to mark the occasion than to celebrate the lives of real women? Who will you celebrate?

Mer’s Real Stories of Real Women Picks:

Frida: Viva la Vida=Long Live Life [3] by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand
Jane Addams: Champion of Democracy [4] by Judith Bloom Fradin & Dennis Brindell Fradin
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath [5] by Stephanie Hemphill
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice [6] by Phillip Hoose

at her majesty's request bookjacket i am scout bookjacket my name is number 4 bookjacket when i was a soldier

At Her Majesty’s Request: An African Princess in Victorian England [7] by Walter Dean Myers
I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee [8] by Charles J. Shields
My Name is Number 4 [9] by Ting-Xing Ye
When I Was a Soldier [10] by Valérie Zenatti

Flickr CC [11]: "We, the people" iPhone Wallpaper [12] Photo by: Tony Crider [13]

Teens [14]

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Source URL: http://www.hcpl.net/content/women%E2%80%99s-history-month-real-stories-real-women

Links:
[1] http://www.hcpl.net/users/mer-l
[2] http://www.womenshistorymonth.gov/
[3] http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&aspect=subtab13&term=frida%20carmen%20bernier&index=.GH#focus
[4] http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&aspect=subtab13&term=jane%20addams%20champion%20of%20democracy&index=.GH#focus
[5] http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&aspect=subtab13&term=your%20own%20sylvia%20hemphill&index=.GH#focus
[6] http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&aspect=subtab13&term=claudette%20colvin%20twice%20toward%20justice&index=.GH#focus
[7] http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&aspect=subtab13&term=at%20her%20majestys%20request%20walter%20dean%20myers&index=.GH#focus
[8] http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&aspect=subtab13&term=i%20am%20scout%20harper%20lee%20shields&index=.GH#focus
[9] http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&aspect=subtab13&term=my%20name%20is%20number%204%20ting%20xing%20ye&index=.GH#focus
[10] http://catalog.hcpl.net/ipac20/ipac.jsp?menu=search&aspect=subtab13&term=when%20i%20was%20a%20soldier%20valerie%20zenatti&index=.GH#focus
[11] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
[12] http://www.flickr.com/photos/acrider/3617153410/
[13] http://www.flickr.com/people/acrider/
[14] http://www.hcpl.net/category/genres/teens