Book Titles
Famous Female
Scientists
Female scientist are the feature for year.
- Marie Curie - winner of the prestigious Nobel Prize, one for
physics and one for chemistry, mother of a Nobel Prize winner,
Irene Curie Joliet
- Florence Sabin - a great research scientist who trained future
doctors as the first female professor at John Hopkins Medical
School
- Barbara McClintock - a brilliant research doctor in genetics,
winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine
- plus information on astronaut Sally Ride, biologist Rachel
Carson, nurse Florence Nightingale and more
Modern Day
Heroines
Meet young women of today who dared to invent and lead. They will
show you how you can do it too.
Heroines of Ancient
China
Famous figures in Chinese history, warriors, rulers, historians and
more.
Heroines in
America
- Famous and not so famous females of the American Revolution
- African American concert singer Marian Anderson
- Pilots Amelia Earheart and Bessie Coleman
Famous Writers and Artists
- Louisa May Alcott, writer of Little Women
- Beverly Cleary, Newbury Award winning writer
- Georgia O'Keeffe, painter
- Varda Chryssa, sculpturer
- Rosalba Carriera, portrait painter
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