2/19/2014 Women's History Month and The Amelia Bloomer Project 2014 Book List

As we get closer to March, and Women’s History Month, you may looking for some new girl-focused titles for your classroom.  

The American Library Association’s Social Responsibilities Round Table Feminist Task Force, or FTF, has some great suggestions. The Amelia Bloomer Project is an annual booklist the FTF puts out of the best feminist books from the previous year, for readers from infants to 18 year-olds.  

Here is the full  2014 Amelia Bloomer Project Top Ten List:  

Cummins, Julie. Flying Solo: How Ruth Elder Soared into America’s Heart. Illus. by Malene R. Laugesen. 2013. Unpaged. Roaring Brook Press  K-Gr.2

Gevinson, Tavi (Ed.). Rookie Yearbook Two. 2013. Drawn & Quarterly Gr.7-up.

Global Fund for Children. Global Baby Girls. 2013. Unpaged. Charlesbridge Publishing, PreS.

Markel, Michelle. Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909. Illus. by Melissa Sweet. 2013. Unpaged. Balzer + Bray K-Gr.4.

Molloy, Aimee. However Long the Night: Molly Melching’s Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph. 2013.  Gr.10-up.

Mullenbach, Cheryl.  Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II.  2013. Chicago Review Press  Gr.9-up.

Povich, Lynn. The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace. 2012.  PublicAffairs  Gr.10-up.

Schnall, Marianne. What Will It Take to Make a Woman President? 2013. Seal Press, Gr.10-12.

Wishinsky, Frieda. Profiles: Freedom Heroines. 2012. Scholastic, Gr.4-6.

Yousafzai, Malala with Christina Lamb. I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. 2013. Little, Brown and Company, Gr.8-12.

Two of the book selections,  “Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II,” “However Long the Night: Molly Melching’s Journey to Help Millions of African Women and Girls Triumph” focus on the experiences and achievements of African American girls and women.  They would be great for the classroom at anytime, but particularly appropriate to check out now as part of African American History Month

My collection of leveled readers, "Famous Women in History" is also an excellent way to build literacy skills while learning more about Women’s History.  This collection of leveled readers for second through fourth grade features stories about eight women and their contributions to history:

Amelia Earhart -- Airplane Pilot (level L)

Abigail Adams -- First Lady & Crusader for People’s Rights (level L)

Clara Barton -- Founder of the American Red Cross (level N)

Maria Mitchell -- Astronomer (level N)

Helen Keller -- Inspirational Speaker (level O)

Ellen Ochoa -- Astronaut (level P)

Laura Ingalls Wilder -- Pioneer and Author (level P)

Millie Hughes-Fulford -- Scientist in Space (level R)