Amelia Bloomer 2012 Top Ten

In celebration of Women’s History Month, I am going to share the top ten books of  the Amelia Bloomer Project blog, an annual booklist of the best feminist books for young readers, ages birth through 18. 

Addie on the Inside by James Howe

Basketball Belles:  How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women’s Hoop on the Map by Sue Macy (on order)

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Deadly by Julie Chibbaro

Dressmaker of Khair of Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Women Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: U.S. Supreme Court Justice by Paul McCaffrey

Tillie the Terrible Swede: How One Woman, a Sewing Needle, and a Bicycle Changed History by Sue Stauffacher

Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance and Rescue by Kathryn Atwood

Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) by Sue Macy

When She Woke by Hillary Jordan

The complete list can be found here.

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