Flint Memorial Library (North Reading)

Amelia to Zora, twenty-six women who changed the world, Cynthia Chin-Lee ; illustrated by Megan Halsey and Sean Addy

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 30-31)

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Amelia to Zora

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191809150

Cynthia Chin-Lee ; illustrated by Megan Halsey and Sean Addy

twenty-six women who changed the world

Profiles the lives of twenty-six women who, through their acts and deeds, helped shape and change the world during their lifetime, including pilot Amelia Earhart and anthropologist Zora Neal Hurston

Amelia Earhart (1897-1937), pilot -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1914-1956), athlete -- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1980), astronomer -- Dolores Huerta (1930- ), union co-founder -- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), first lady -- Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), painter -- Grace Hopper (1906-1992), computer scientist -- Helen Keller (1880-1968), advocate for the disabled -- Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976), photographer -- Jane Goodall (1934- ), naturalist -- Kristi Yamaguchi (1971- ), ice skating champion -- Lena Horne (1917- ), entertainer -- Maya Lin (1959- ), architect -- Nawal El Sadaawi (1931- ), women's rights activist -- Oprah Winfrey (1954- ), talk show host -- Patricia Schroeder (1940- ), congresswoman -- Quah Ah (1893-1949), artist -- Rachel Carson (1907-1964), environmentalist -- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (1945- ), democratic leader -- Mother Teresa (1910-1997), servant of the poor -- Ursula Le Guin (1929- ), writer -- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900-1990), diplomat -- Wilma Mankiller (1945- ), chief of the Cherokee nation -- Chen Xiefen (1883-1923), journalist -- Yoshiko Uchida (1922-1992), writer -- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), anthropologist, writer

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