Celebrate Women's History - Kids Edition

A selection of books celebrating women and their accomplishments, for Women’s History Month and all year long.

Updated February 26, 2025
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The international day of the girl celebrating girls around the World
Humphreys, Jessica Dee
Paper Book
The UN designated October the 11th as the International Day of the Girl, a day to increase awareness of problems that affect girls around the world and to encourage progress toward gender equality. 9 stories inspired by the real-life experiences of girls from all over the globe bring to light the...
Sea queens women pirates around the world
Yolen, Jane.
Paper Book
"In 1963 Jane Yolen released a book called PIRATES IN PETTICOATS, because the idea of women as pirates fascinated her--but there wasn't much information about these women who made their livelihoods plundering on the high seas. Scholars have dug up a bounty of new information since then, and Jane,...
Hidden figures the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
Lee Shetterly, Margot
Paper Book
The uplifting, amazing true story--a New York Times bestseller! This edition of Margot Lee Shetterly's acclaimed book is perfect for young readers. It's the powerful story of four African-American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments in our space...
The breadwinner
Ellis, Deborah, 1960- author.
Paper Book
The Breadwinner brings to life an issue that has recently exploded in the international media -- the reality of life under the Taliban. Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because he has a foreign education, her father is...

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