Girls who rocked the world :
McCann, Michelle Roehm, 1968-
Girls who rocked the world : heroines from Joan of Arc to Mother Teresa / Michelle Roehm McCann & Amelie Welden. - viii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and filmography.
Hatshepsut : Pharaoh -- The Trung sisters : warrior queens -- Joan of Arc : warrior and saint -- Sor Juana In�es de la Cruz : scholar and poet -- Laura Bassi : physicist -- Eliza Lucas Pinckney : agricultural entrepreneur -- Phillis Wheatley : poet -- Elisabeth Vig�ee-Le Brun : painter -- Maria Theresia von Paradis : pianist and composer -- Sacagawea : guide and interpreter -- Mary Anning : fossil hunter -- The Bront�e sisters (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne) : authors -- Florence Nightingale : nurse -- Harriet Tubman : abolitionist -- Margaret Knight : inventor -- Anna Elizabeth Dickinson : orator, abolitionist, and suffragette -- Sarah Bernhardt : actress -- Edmonia Lewis : sculptor -- Emma Lazarus : poet -- Helen Keller : writer and advocate -- Anna Pavlova : ballerina -- Coco Chanel : fashion designer -- Bessie Smith : singer -- Ir�ene Joliot-Curie : chemist -- Marian Anderson : singer -- Golda Meir : prime minister -- Queen S�alote Tupou III : queen -- Frida Kahlo : painter -- Mother Teresa : missionary -- Mary Leakey : archaeologist and anthropologist -- Jackie Mitchell : athlete -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias : athlete -- Indira Gandhi : prime minister -- Eva "Evita" Per�on : actress and politician -- Anne Frank : diarist -- Wilma Rudolph : athlete -- The Night Witches : fighter pilots -- Temple Grandin : scientist, inventor, and advocate -- Susan Eloise (S. E.) Hinton : novelist -- Adriana Ocampo : planetary geologist -- Amatalrauf al-Sharki (Raufa Hassan) : journalist and activist -- Rigoberta Mench�u : activist -- Maya Lin : architect -- Midori Goto : violinist -- Natalie Portman : actress -- Ashley Rhodes-Courter : author and advocate.
1070L Lexile
9781582703022 1582703027 9781582703619 1582703612
2011050502
Girls--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Women heroes--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Heroes--Biography--Juvenile literature
Biography--Juvenile literature
Girls--Juvenile literature.
Women heroes--Juvenile literature.
Heroes--Juvenile literature
CT3207 / .M34 2012
920.72
Girls who rocked the world : heroines from Joan of Arc to Mother Teresa / Michelle Roehm McCann & Amelie Welden. - viii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and filmography.
Hatshepsut : Pharaoh -- The Trung sisters : warrior queens -- Joan of Arc : warrior and saint -- Sor Juana In�es de la Cruz : scholar and poet -- Laura Bassi : physicist -- Eliza Lucas Pinckney : agricultural entrepreneur -- Phillis Wheatley : poet -- Elisabeth Vig�ee-Le Brun : painter -- Maria Theresia von Paradis : pianist and composer -- Sacagawea : guide and interpreter -- Mary Anning : fossil hunter -- The Bront�e sisters (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne) : authors -- Florence Nightingale : nurse -- Harriet Tubman : abolitionist -- Margaret Knight : inventor -- Anna Elizabeth Dickinson : orator, abolitionist, and suffragette -- Sarah Bernhardt : actress -- Edmonia Lewis : sculptor -- Emma Lazarus : poet -- Helen Keller : writer and advocate -- Anna Pavlova : ballerina -- Coco Chanel : fashion designer -- Bessie Smith : singer -- Ir�ene Joliot-Curie : chemist -- Marian Anderson : singer -- Golda Meir : prime minister -- Queen S�alote Tupou III : queen -- Frida Kahlo : painter -- Mother Teresa : missionary -- Mary Leakey : archaeologist and anthropologist -- Jackie Mitchell : athlete -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias : athlete -- Indira Gandhi : prime minister -- Eva "Evita" Per�on : actress and politician -- Anne Frank : diarist -- Wilma Rudolph : athlete -- The Night Witches : fighter pilots -- Temple Grandin : scientist, inventor, and advocate -- Susan Eloise (S. E.) Hinton : novelist -- Adriana Ocampo : planetary geologist -- Amatalrauf al-Sharki (Raufa Hassan) : journalist and activist -- Rigoberta Mench�u : activist -- Maya Lin : architect -- Midori Goto : violinist -- Natalie Portman : actress -- Ashley Rhodes-Courter : author and advocate.
1070L Lexile
9781582703022 1582703027 9781582703619 1582703612
2011050502
Girls--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Women heroes--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Heroes--Biography--Juvenile literature
Biography--Juvenile literature
Girls--Juvenile literature.
Women heroes--Juvenile literature.
Heroes--Juvenile literature
CT3207 / .M34 2012
920.72