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Women's History Month Book List

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Please pardon my long absence - lots of work, flu, then pneumonia. It's March - Women's History Month! Here's some books to look at this month: When Esther Morris Headed West: Women Wyoming and the Right To Vote by Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge (picture book) From Rags To Riches: A History of Girls Clothing in America by Leslie Sills (ages 10 and up) In Real Life: Six women Photographers by Leslie Sills (ages 10 and up) Women Who Dared by Valjean McLenighan (grades 4-8) Remember the Ladies: 100 Great American Women by Cheryl Harness (ages 8 and up) Amelia and Eleanor Go For A Ride by Pam Munoz Ryan (picture book) Check out biographies of these famous women: Authors: Mary Shelley, Jane Austin, Emily Bronte, Harper Lee, Pearl S. Buck, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolfe, Beatrix Potter, Lucy Maude Montgomery Artists: Frida Kahlo, Grandma Moses, Diane Arbus, Mary Cassatt, Georgia O'Keeffe Activists: Susan B. Anthony, Jane Addams, Abigail Adams, Dorothea Dix, Elizabeth Cad...