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Author:

McCann, Michelle Roehm, 1968-

Title:

Girls who rocked the world : heroines from Joan of Arc to Mother Teresa / Michelle Roehm McCann & Amelie Welden.

Edition:

Aladdin/Beyond Words ed.

Publisher:

Aladdin ;

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

viii, 248 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Hatshepsut,--Queen of Egypt--Juvenile literature.
Joan,--of Arc, Saint,--1412-1431--Juvenile literature.
Juana Inés de la Cruz,--Sister,--1651-1695--Juvenile literature.
Bassi, Laura,--1711-1778--Juvenile literature.
Pinckney, Eliza Lucas,--1723-1793--Juvenile literature.
Wheatley, Phillis,--1753-1784--Juvenile literature.
Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth,--1755-1842--Juvenile literature.
Paradis, Maria Theresia von,--1759-1824--Juvenile literature.
Sacagawea--Juvenile literature.
Anning, Mary,--1799-1847--Juvenile literature.
Brontë, Charlotte,--1816-1855--Juvenile literature.
Brontë, Emily,--1818-1848--Juvenile literature.
Brontë, Anne,--1820-1849--Juvenile literature.
Nightingale, Florence,--1820-1910--Juvenile literature.
Tubman, Harriet,--1820?-1913--Juvenile literature.
Knight, Margaret E.,--1838-1914--Juvenile literature.
Dickinson, Anna E.--(Anna Elizabeth),--1842-1932--Juvenile literature.
Bernhardt, Sarah,--1844-1923--Juvenile literature.
Lewis, Edmonia--Juvenile literature.
Lazarus, Emma,--1849-1887--Juvenile literature.
Keller, Helen,--1880-1968--Juvenile literature.
Pavlova, Anna,--1881-1931--Juvenile literature.
Chanel, Coco,--1883-1971--Juvenile literature.
Smith, Bessie,--1894-1937--Juvenile literature.
Joliot-Curie, Irène,--1897-1956--Juvenile literature.
Anderson, Marian,--1897-1993--Juvenile literature.
Meir, Golda,--1898-1978--Juvenile literature.
Sālote Tupou--III,--Queen of Tonga,--1900-1965--Juvenile literature.
Kahlo, Frida--Juvenile literature.
Teresa,--Mother,--1910-1997--Juvenile literature.
Leakey, Mary D.--(Mary Douglas),--1913-1996--Juvenile literature.
Mitchell, Jackie,--1914-1987--Juvenile literature.
Zaharias, Babe Didrikson,--1911-1956--Juvenile literature.
Gandhi, Indira,--1917-1984--Juvenile literature.
Perón, Eva,--1919-1952--Juvenile literature.
Frank, Anne,--1929-1945--Juvenile literature.
Rudolph, Wilma,--1940---Juvenile literature.
Grandin, Temple--Juvenile literature.
Hinton, S. E.--Juvenile literature.
Ocampo, Adriana C.--Juvenile literature.
Menchú, Rigoberta--Juvenile literature.
Lin, Maya Ying--Juvenile literature.
Midori,--1971---Juvenile literature.
Portman, Natalie,--1981---Juvenile literature.
Rhodes-Courter, Ashley,--1985---Juvenile literature.
Girls--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Women heroes--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Heroes--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Biography--Juvenile literature.
Girls--Juvenile literature.
Women heroes--Juvenile literature.
Heroes--Juvenile literature.
Biography.
Girls.
Women heroes.
Heroes.
Vietnam--History--Trưng Sisters' Rebellion, 39-43--Juvenile literature.

Other Authors:

Welden, Amelie, 1975-

Notes:

Portions of this work were previously published in an earlier edition of Girls Who Rocked the World and in Girls Who Rocked the World 2. Includes bibliographical references.

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:

Meet forty-six movers and shakers who made their mark before age twenty.

ISBN:

1582703612 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781582703619 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1582703027 (pbk.)
9781582703022 (pbk.)

LCCN:

2011050502

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