Tag search:biography

Queer and Fearless: Poems Celebrating the Lives of LGBTQ+ Heroes

by Rob Sanders
Hardcover, 2024
Tags
LGBTQIA, GENDER, JUSTICE, DIVERSITY, PICTURE BOOK, JUVENILE, NON-FICTION, biography, queer, transgender, history — 4 more, American History, queer history, Activism, poetry
Barcode
2195
Status
Available

Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller

by Breanna J. McDaniel
Hardcover, 2024
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, PICTURE BOOK, stories, folktales, libraries, history, black history, American history, Kirkus Starred Review, biography
Barcode
2196
Status
Available

Ibn Yunus: The Father of Astronomy (Muslim Scientists)

by Ahmed Imam
Paper Book, 2019
Tags
RELIGION, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, PICTURE BOOK, Islam, Muslim, science, scientist, discovery, history, biography
Barcode
2127
Status
Available
Call number
823.92

Holy Troublemakers and Unconventional Saints

by Daneen Akers
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
RELIGION, JUSTICE, WOMEN AND GIRLS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, DIVERSITY, MIDDLE GRADES, biography, Activism, LGBTQIA, NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, LATINX — 2 more, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER
Barcode
2128
Status
Available
Call number
200.922

Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes

by Traci N. Todd
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, JUVENILE, biography, cartoonist, women's rights, civil rights, history, American History — 4 more, black history, artist, art, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
2169
Status
Available
Call number
741.5

There Was a Party for Langston: (Caldecott Honor & Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor)

by Jason Reynolds
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, black joy, black history, American History, history, poetry, dance, biography, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
2170
Status
Available
Call number
818.5209

Grandad Mandela

by Ambassador Zindzi Mandela
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, apartheid, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, South Africa, Nelson Mandela, Black, rights, biography, black history — 4 more, Activism, protest, social justice, JUVENILE
Barcode
2129
Status
Available
Call number
968.06

A Picture Book of Jesse Owens (Picture Book Biography)

by David A. Adler
Paperback, 1993
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, biography, history, American History, black history, athlete, running, Olympics
Series
Picture Book Biographies
Barcode
2153
Status
Available
Call number
796.42092

Born Curious: 20 Girls Who Grew Up to Be Awesome Scientists

by Martha Freeman
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, DIVERSITY, JUVENILE, MIDDLE GRADES, science, curiosity, tenacity, biography, NON-FICTION
Barcode
2172
Status
Available
Call number
509.2

Follow Your Dreams, Little One (Vashti Harrison’s Little Ones, 3)

by Vashti Harrison
Board book, 2020
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, BOARD BOOK, history, black history, biography, NONFICTION
Barcode
2168
Status
Available
Call number
305.38

Ballad of an American: A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson

by Sharon Rudahl
Paperback, 2020
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, TEEN, graphic, biography, music, protest, Activism, antiwar, civil rights, colonialism — 2 more, acting, athlete
Barcode
2065
Status
Available
Call number
781.5

She Persisted

by Chelsea Clinton
Board book, 2019
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, DIVERSITY, JUSTICE, BOARD BOOK, biography, change, Activism, feminism
Series
She Persisted (Board Book)
Barcode
2045
Status
Available
Call number
796.42092

If You’re a Kid Like Gavin: The True Story of a Young Trans Activist

by Gavin Grimm
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
GENDER, LGBTQIA, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, JUVENILE, biography, NONFICTION, transgender, school, Activism, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
2058
Status
Available
Call number
306.76

When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson

by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Hardcover, 2002
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, JUVENILE, NON-FICTION, biography, music, singing, civil rights, American History — 3 more, black history, opera, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
2053
Status
Available
Call number
782.1092

Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler

by Ibi Zoboi
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, MIDDLE GRADES, TEEN, writer, biography, poetry, history, science fiction, civil rights — 1 more, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
2019
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History (Vashti Harrison)

by Vashti Harrison
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUVENILE, NONFICTION, biography, history, American History, black history, Kirkus Starred Review
Series
Little Leaders
Barcode
1987
Status
Available
Call number
920.72089

Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement

by Angela Joy
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
JUSTICE, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, racism, civil rights, activism, Kirkus Starred Review, MIDDLE GRADES, graphic non-fiction, biography
Barcode
1988
Status
Available
Call number
323.092

The Green Piano: How Little Me Found Music

by Roberta Flack
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, PICTURE BOOK, music, piano, biography
Barcode
1999
Status
Available
Call number
782.42164092

Amazing: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Who Inspire Us All

by Maia Shibutani
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, DIVERSITY, WOMEN AND GIRLS, BODIES AND ABILITIES, Marshall Islands, Philippines, Hawaiian, Bangladeshi, Thai, Filipino, disabilities — 4 more, history, biography, NON-FICTION, JUVENILE
Barcode
1954
Status
Available
Call number
973.04950099

Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa (Great Black Performers, 3)

by Andrea Pinkney
Paperback, 2007
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, PICTURE BOOK, JUVENILE, biography, music
Barcode
1901
Status
Available
Call number
921

Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines

by Jeanne Walker Harvey
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, WOMEN AND GIRLS, REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, PICTURE BOOK, biography, Chinese-American, architect, art, design, memorial, Vietnam War
Barcode
1875
Status
Available
Call number
720.92

Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement

by Dennis Brindell Fradin
Hardcover, 2000
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, MIDDLE GRADES, biography, history, American History, black history, NON-FICTION, Social Activist
Barcode
1774
Status
Book Bag 7
Call number
323.092

The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art

by Cynthia Levinson
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, RELIGION, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, JUVENILE, NONFICTION, biography, Jewish, Judaism, Hebrew, Yiddish — 9 more, art, painting, protest, photography, poverty, court case, artist, Lithuania, deportation
Barcode
1655
Status
Available
Call number
759.13

Our House Is on Fire: Greta Thunberg's Call to Save the Planet

by Jeanette Winter
Ebook, 2019
Tags
PICTURE BOOK, JUSTICE, environmentalism, climate, biography, WOMEN AND GIRLS, Greta Thunberg
Barcode
1630
Status
Available
Call number
363.7056109485

When Sue Found Sue: Sue Hendrickson Discovers Her T. Rex

by Toni Buzzeo
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
PICTURE BOOK, WOMEN AND GIRLS, biography, science, paleontologist, pioneer, scientist, discovery, curiousity
Barcode
1632
Status
Available
Call number
560.92

Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History (Vashti Harrison)

by Vashti Harrison
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUVENILE, Kirkus Starred Review, history, biography
Series
Little Leaders
Barcode
1658
Status
Available
Call number
920.72089

She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm

by Katheryn Russell-Brown
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, JUVENILE, biography, Politics, history, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1752
Status
Available
Call number
328.73

I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark

by Debbie Levy
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, PICTURE BOOK, JUVENILE, NON-FICTION, biography, women's rights, supreme court, Jewish
Barcode
1668
Status
Available
Call number
347.73

Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth: Educator, Feminist, and Anti-Lynching Civil Rights Leader

by Michelle Duster
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, biography, NONFICTION, American History, black history, civil rights
Barcode
1631
Status
Available
Call number
323.092

No Truth Without Ruth: The Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

by Kathleen Krull
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, supreme court, PICTURE BOOK, preschool - grade 3, JUVENILE, NON-FICTION, biography, RELIGION, Judaism, sexism — 1 more, women's rights
Barcode
1789
Status
Available
Call number
347.73

The Only Woman in the Photo: Frances Perkins & Her New Deal for America

by Kathleen Krull
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, JUVENILE, NONFICTION, biography, history, American History, New Deal, worker's rights, social work
Barcode
1841
Status
Available
Call number
331.092

How to Build a Hug: Temple Grandin and Her Amazing Squeeze Machine

by Amy Guglielmo
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
BODIES AND ABILITIES, WOMEN AND GIRLS, PICTURE BOOK, autism, biography, ages 5-9
Barcode
1785
Status
Book Bag 11
Call number
616.85

Finding My Dance

by Ria Thundercloud
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
NATIVE NATIONS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, WOMEN AND GIRLS, PICTURE BOOK, Native author, biography, dance, jingle dance, pow wow, Ho-Chunk, Sandia Pueblo
Barcode
1831
Status
Available
Call number
305.897

Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man

by Tonya Bolden
Paperback, 2020
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, MIDDLE GRADES, biography, slavery, enslavement, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1642
Status
Available
Call number
973.8092

Living for Change: An Autobiography (Posthumanities)

by Grace Lee Boggs
Paperback, 2016
Tags
ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, ADULT, biography, Activism, social justice, history
Barcode
1734
Status
Available
Call number
303.48

Swing Sisters: The Story of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm

by Karen Deans
Paperback, 2021
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, PICTURE BOOK, music, jazz, civil rights, biography
Barcode
1732
Status
Available
Call number
781.65082

Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler

by Ibi Zoboi
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, MIDDLE GRADES, TEEN, writer, biography, poetry, history, science fiction, civil rights — 1 more, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1731
Status
Available
Call number
813.54

Muhammad Ali (Volume 26) (Little People, BIG DREAMS, 26)

by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, JUSTICE, RELIGION, PICTURE BOOK, biography, Islam, boxing, War
Series
Little People, BIG DREAMS (26)
Barcode
1707
Status
Available
Call number
796.83092

Sarah and the Big Wave: The True Story of the First Woman to Surf Mavericks

by Bonnie Tsui
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
PICTURE BOOK, WOMEN AND GIRLS, sports, surfing, ocean, pioneer, biography
Barcode
1702
Status
Available
Call number
797.3

Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor

by Robert Burleigh
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
PICTURE BOOK, WOMEN AND GIRLS, scientist, science, curiosity, Kirkus Starred Review, pioneer, biography, oceanology, oceans, continental drift — 1 more, earth
Barcode
1703
Status
Available
Call number
526.092

The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown

by Mac Barnett
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, LGBTQIA, PICTURE BOOK, biography, author, writer, pioneer, Kirkus Starred Review, bisexuality
Barcode
1627
Status
Available
Call number
813.52

The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver

by Gene Barretta
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, PICTURE BOOK, nature, plants, gardener, gardens, biography, scientist, science, pioneer
Barcode
1624
Status
Available
Call number
630.92

On Wings of Words: The Extraordinary Life of Emily Dickinson

by Jennifer Berne
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
PICTURE BOOK, WOMEN AND GIRLS, biography, poetry, Emily Dickinson, Kirkus Starred Review, curiosity, imagination, writer, writing
Barcode
1622
Status
Available
Call number
811.4

Pigskins to Paintbrushes: The Story of Football-Playing Artist Ernie Barnes

by Don Tate
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
PICTURE BOOK, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, biography, sports, art
Barcode
1588
Status
Available
Call number
796.332092

It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way

by Kyo Maclear
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
WOMEN AND GIRLS, CULTURES AND TRADITIONS, ASIAN ASIAN-AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, Japanese American, Japanese internment, JUSTICE, artist, art, biography, PICTURE BOOK, Kirkus Starred Review
Barcode
1584
Status
Available
Call number
741.6092

Rainbow Revolutionaries: Fifty LGBTQ People Who Made History

by Sarah Prager
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
LGBTQIA, GENDER, JUVENILE, MIDDLE GRADES, biography, history, DIVERSITY
Barcode
1562
Status
Available
Call number
306.76092

Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909

by Michelle Markel
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
PICTURE BOOK, JUVENILE, JUSTICE, WOMEN AND GIRLS, REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS, RELIGION, workers rights, labor, unions, Yiddish, Jewish — 3 more, factories, Kirkus Starred Review, biography
Barcode
1560
Status
Available
Call number
331.892

Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History

by Blair Imani
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
DIVERSITY, WOMEN AND GIRLS, LGBTQIA, GENDER, feminism, Activism, biography, nonbinary, social justice, TEEN
Barcode
1509
Status
Book Bag 16
Call number
320.082

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

by Phillip Hoose
Paperback, 2010
Tags
JUSTICE, AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, TEEN, 12 and up, biography, civil rights, NON-FICTION, Segregation
Barcode
1310
Status
Book Bag 12
Call number
323.092

The Story of Harriet Tubman: A Biography Book for New Readers (The Story Of: A Biography Series for New Readers)

by Christine Platt
Paperback, 2020
Tags
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN, WOMEN AND GIRLS, JUSTICE, biography, JUVENILE, 6 - 10 years, slavery, enslaved people, underground railroad
Barcode
1288
Status
Available
Call number
306.362092
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