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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     McCann, Michelle Roehm, 1968-     Subjects     Girls -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.     Women heroes -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.     Heroes -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.     Browse Catalog     by author:      McCann, Michelle Roehm, 1968-       by title:      Girls who rocked the...       by call number:      920.72 M122g 2012     Search the Web     McCann, Michelle Roehm, 1968-     Girls -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.     Women heroes -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.     Heroes -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.       MARC Display

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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Children's Nonfiction 920.72 M122g 2012 Childrens Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Children's Nonfiction 920.72 M122g 2012 Childrens Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Sheet Harbour Public Library Children's Nonfiction 920.72 M122g 2012 Childrens Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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