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McCann, Michelle Roehm, 1968-
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Girls -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women heroes -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Heroes -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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McCann, Michelle Roehm, 1968-
Girls -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women heroes -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Heroes -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Girls who rocked the world : heroines from Joan of Arc to Mother Teresa / Michelle Roehm McCann & Amelie Welden ; [editors, Emmalisa Sparrow,
Ali
McCart
; interior illustrations, David Hahn].
by
McCann, Michelle Roehm, 1968-
Aladdin ; Beyond Words, c2012.
Call #:
920.72 M122g 2012
Subjects
Girls -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women heroes -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Heroes -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
9781582703619
1582703612
9781582703022 (pbk.)
1582703027 (pbk.)
Edition:
Aladdin/Beyond Words ed.
Description:
248 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in two volumes as: Girls who rocked the world / Amelie Welden. Hillsboro, Or. : Beyond Words Pub., 1998. Girls who rocked the world 2 / Michelle Roehm McCann. Hillsboro, Or. : Beyond Words Pub., 2000.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-245) and index.
Contents:
Hatshepsut : Pharaoh -- The Trung sisters : warrior queens -- Joan of Arc : warrior and saint -- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz : scholar and poet -- Laura Bassi : physicist -- Eliza Lucas Pinckney : agricultural entrepreneur -- Phillis Wheatley : poet -- Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun : painter -- Maria Theresia von Paradis : pianist and composer -- Sacagawea : guide and interpreter -- Mary Anning : Fossil hunter -- The Brontë 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 -- Irène Joliot-Curie : chemist -- Marian Anderson : singer -- Golda Meir : prime minister -- Queen Sālote 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" Perón : 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 Menchú : activist -- Maya Lin : architect -- Midori Goto : violinist -- Natalie Portman : actress -- Ashley Rhodes-Courter : author and advocate.
Summary:
Profiles forty-six biographical accounts of strong, independent female role models, all of whom first impacted the world as teenagers or younger.
Genre:
Biographies.
Other authors:
Welden, Amelie, 1975-
Sparrow, Emmalisa.
McCart
,
Ali
.
Hahn, David, 1967-
Welden, Amelie, 1975- Girls who rocked the world. 1998.
McCann, Michelle Roehm, 1968- Girls who rocked the world. 2000.
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