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Women's History Month 2025 @ SCCLD

Learn about women's history through the lives of these amazing women.

Santa Clara County Library

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  • There Goes Patti McGee!

    the Story of the First Woman's National Skateboard Champion

    Nienow, Tootie
    BookNew York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2021. — JE 796.22 MCGEE NIENOW
  • A Curious Mind and a Very Big Heart

    the Story of Designer and Innovator Sara Little Turnbull

    Lewis, Aura
    BookNew York : Beach Lane Books, [2023] — JE 745.2092 TURNBUL LEWIS
  • Cut!

    How Lotte Reiniger and a Pair of Scissors Revolutionized Animation

    Winters, C. E., 1971-
    BookNew York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023 — JE 741.5809 REINIGE WINTERS
  • BookNew York, NY : Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2023. — J 338.7668 WALKER RODRIGU
  • Jackie Ormes Draws the Future

    the Remarkable Life of a Pioneering Cartoonist

    Montague, Liz
    BookNew York : Random House Studio, [2023] — JE 741.5092 ORMES MONTAGU
  • Courage in Her Cleats

    the Story of Soccer Star Abby Wambach

    Chaffee, Kim
    BookSalem, MA : Page Street Kids, 2023. — JE 796.334 WAMBACH CHAFFEE
  • Send a Girl!

    the True Story of How Women Joined the FDNY

    Rinker, Jessica M.
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2021. — JE 363.3709 BERKMAN RINKER
  • Ellen Takes Flight

    the Life of Astronaut Ellen Ochoa

    Rappaport, Doreen
    BookNew York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, [2023] — J 629.45 OCHOA RAPPAPO
  • The Fire of Stars

    the Life and Brilliance of the Woman Who Discovered What Stars Are Made of

    Larson, Kirsten W.,
    BookSan Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2023] — JE 520.92 PAYNEGA LARSON
  • The Courageous Six Triple Eight

    the all-Black Female Battalion of World War II

    Tyner, Artika R.
    BookNorth Mankato, Minnesota : Capstone Press, [2023] — J GN 940.5412 TYNER
  • The Brilliant Calculator

    How Mathematician Edith Clarke Helped Electrify America

    Lower, Jan
    BookNew York : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers, [2023] — JE 621.3092 CLARKE LOWER
  • Josephine and Her Dishwashing Machine

    Josephine Cochrane's Bright Invention Makes a Splash

    Hannigan, Kate,
    BookNew York : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers, 2023. — J 609.2 COCHRAN HANNIGA
  • Jovita Wore Pants

    the Story of a Revolutionary Fighter

    Salazar, Aida
    BookNew York : Orchard Books, 2021. — J BIO
  • To Boldly Go

    How Nichelle Nichols and Star Trek Helped Advance Civil Rights

    Dalton, Angela
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023] — JE 791.4502 NICHOLS DALTON
  • Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science

    the First Computer Programmer

    Stanley, Diane
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2016] — J 510.92 LOVELAC STANLEY
  • Molly, by Golly!

    the Legend of Molly Williams, America's First Female Firefighter

    Ochiltree, Dianne
    BookHonesdale, Pa. : Calkins Creek, c2012. — J 363.3709 WILLIAM OCHILTR
  • Spring After Spring

    How Rachel Carson Inspired the Environmental Movement

    Sisson, Stéphanie Roth,
    BookNew York : Roaring Book Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing, 2018. — JE 570.92 CARSON SISSON
  • Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors?

    the Story of Elizabeth Blackwell

    Stone, Tanya Lee
    BookNew York : Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2013. — JE 610.92 BLACKWE STONE
  • BookSeattle, WA : Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books, [2019] — J 813.54 CLEARY CONRAD