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Girl Power! Nonfiction about Strong Women
Learn about some amazing real women in these nonfiction books
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Blair, Margaret Whitman
The Roaring 20: The First Cross-Country Air Race for Women
The first cross-country air race for women in 1929 took the courage and drive of a collection of ambitious aviators.
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Braun, Sandra
Incredible Women Inventors
This accessible and intriguing volume profiles ten incredible women with the talent, intelligence, and gumption
to invent -- and change the world.
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Cohen, Deborah Bodin
Lilith's Ark: Teenage Tales of Biblical Women
Even in biblical times, teenaged girls and young women faced challenges, first loves, burgeoning identities, developing sexualities, and blossoming spirituality.
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Conlon, Faith & Ingrid Emerick
Go Your Own Way: Women Travel the World
In these essays, twenty-three women who've traveled solo share their exhilarating stories -- the daring
adventures, the comical disasters, the cultural revelations, and the powerful moments of self-discovery that
can only come from being in a foreign place.
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Gourse, Leslie
Sophisticated Ladies
This collective biography of 14 singers begins in the 1920s with Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters and moves
through current performers Cassandra Wilson and Diana Krall.
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Ledbetter, Suzann
Shady Ladies: Nineteen Surprising and Rebellious American Women
Unsung though they may be, these defiant women challenged post-Victorian society in an era when females
were second-class citizens.
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Lopez, Adriana
Fifteen Candles: 15 Tales of Taffeta, Hairspray, Drunk Uncles, and Other Quinceañera Stories
For the uninitiated, the Quinceañera celebrates the passage of a fifteen-year-old girl into adulthood; It's
a bit bat mitzvah with a dash of debutante ball, and loaded with the same potential for hilarity and
adolescent angst.
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Rodriguez, Deborah
Kabul Beauty School: an American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
After the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan and opened a beauty school for women.
She learned how to empower her students to become their families' breadwinners in a conservative,
male-dominated society.
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Rowell, Victoria
The Women Who Raised Me: a Memoir
The author celebrates her remarkable rise out of the foster-care system to attain the American dream - and
of the unlikely series of women who lifted her up in marvelous and distinctive ways.
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Segovia, Patty & Rebecca Heller
Skater Girl: a Girl's Guide to Skateboarding
From lingo and board facts to fashion advice and "The Top 10 Reasons Why Skateboarding Rocks," this book gives
girls the lowdown on all the need-to-know stuff.
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List created February, 2008.
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