Description
Title: Fearless Women: Courageous Females Who Refused to Be Denied
Author: REYNOLDS TOBY / CALVER PAUL
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/04/2017
Imprint: BARRON’S
Price: $16.00
Publishing status: Active
NonFiction 8-12
Through the Real Lives books, children will meet some remarkable individuals who refused to accept the status quo. Each entry in these riveting books explores how these individuals had an extraordinary impact on the world, coming from all four corners of the globe, all walks of life, and across many different disciplines. In Fearless Women, kids will discover stories about women who stood up for what they believed in and changed the world for the better. Includes Rosa Parks, Malala Yousafzai, Irena Sendler, Marie Curie, Jane Goodall, Indira Gandhi, Amelia Earhart, Maya Angelou, Josephine Baker, and more. There are women of science and medicine, war and peace, politicians and peacemakers, social activists and resistance fighters, and more. Bold color schemes and a stylized photograph or illustration of the subject make these books hard to resist. Children will be drawn to these visually appealing books and find the stories inside of them fascinating and thought-provoking.
Table of Contents:
What is a fearless woman?
Rosa Parks
Emmeline Pankhurst
Malala Yousafzai
Amelia Earhart
Florence Nightingale
Marie Curie
Michelle Bachelet
Panmela Castro
Jamie Brewer
Margaret Thatcher
Billie Jean King
Virginia McKenna
Winnie Mandela
Maya Angelou
Grace Darling
Benazir Bhutto
Marie Stopes
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Jane Addams
Madeleine Albright
Valentina Tereshkova
The Maharani of Jhansi
Kathrine Switzer
Fatuma Noor
Leymah Gbowee
Jane Goodall
Coco Chanel
Harriet Chalmers Adams
More fearless women
Index
Series: Real Lives
ISBN: 9780764168864
Weight: 454g
Dimension: 254mm X 206mm