Celebrate Women’s History - Teen Edition

Updated February 27, 2024
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Wonderful women of the world
Anderson, Laurie Halse, editor.
Paper Book
Women change the World... ...they've been doing it for centuries. Now New York Times bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson has gathered female and nonbinary writers and artists to reveal the women making our world better day by day. Real-world heroes who exemplify the...
A pirate's life for she swashbuckling women through the ages
Duncombe, Laura Sook author.
Paper Book
Pirates are an enduring popular subject, depicted often in songs, stories, and Halloween costumes. Yet the truth about pirate women--who they were, why they went to sea, and what their lives were really like--is seldom a part of the conversation. In this Seven Seas history of the world's female...
Out of left field
Klages, Ellen, 1954- author.
Paper Book
A story about the fight for equal rights in America's favorite arena: the baseball field! Every boy in the neighborhood knows Katy Gordon is their best pitcher, even though she's a girl. But when she tries out for Little League, it's a whole different story. Girls are not eligible...
Powers of a girl 65 Marvel women who punched the sky & changed the universe
Cink, Lorraine.
Paper Book
Named one of the New York Public Library's Best Books for Teens of 2019! This is the Marvel Universe. Where the personalities, powers, and straight-up legends of countless heroic women have captured readers for generations. This...
Gamer girls 25 women who built the video game industry
Kenney, Mary
Paper Book
Women have always made video games, from the 1960s and the first-of-its-kind, projector-based Sumerian Game to the blockbuster Uncharted games that defined the early 2000s. Women have been behind the writing, design, scores, and engines that power one of the most influential...
Code name Verity
Wein, Elizabeth.
Paper Book
Don't miss Elizabeth Wein's stunning new novel, Stateless! The beloved #1 New York Times bestseller, a "fiendishly plotted" (New York Times) "heart-in-your mouth adventure" (Washington Post) that...
Night Witches a novel of World War II
Lasky, Kathryn
Paper Book
16-year-old Valya knows what it feels like to fly. She's a pilot who's always felt more at home soaring through the sky than down on earth. But since the Germans surrounded Stalingrad, Valya's been forced to stay on the ground and watch her city crumble.When her mother is killed during the...
Flygirl
Smith, Sherri L.
Paper Book
For fans of Unbroken and Ruta Sepetys. All Ida Mae Jones wants to do is fly. Her daddy was a pilot, and years after his death she feels closest to him when she's in the air. But as a young black woman in 1940s Louisiana, she knows the sky is off limits to her, until...

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