Radioactive!

 

By Winifred Conkling

Published by Algonquin Young Readers

This is a little known story about how two female physicists groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb.  Their names were Irène Curie (Marie Curie’s daughter) and Lise Meitner.

 

 

 

 

Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass

By Dean Robbins and Illustrated by Selina Alko

Published by Orchard Books

In Two Friends, Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, are having tea together and talking about their fight for women’s and African American’s rights. The concept for this story is based on a statue in their hometown of Rochester, New York.

 

 

 

Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor

By Emily Arnold McCully

Published by Square Fish

With her sketch book and her father’s toolbox Mattie could made many things.  When she grew up she invented a machine that made square-bottom paper bags that we still use today.  A man sued Mattie and claimed he invented it.  He said Mattie, a woman, was not smart enough to have designed it.  In court, Mattie proved him wrong.

 

 

 

To the Stars! The First American Woman to Walk in Space

By Carmella Van Vleet and Dr. Kathy Sullivan; Illustrated by Nicole Wong

Published by Charlesbridge

Young Kathy Sullivan wanted to go everywhere an explore things, but there was one problem.  Only men were supposed to do those things. Kathy didn’t care.  She followed her heart and did what she wanted to do.  She became a NASA astronaut and was the first women to walk in space.