Girls who rocked the world heroines from Joan of Arc to Mother Teresa
Tells the stories of forty-six girls who were younger than twenty years of age when they changed the history of the world through amazing accomplishments.
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New York : Hillsboro, Or. :
Aladdin ; Beyond Words,
2012.
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Table of 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.
