Suggested Children's Biographies about Women Achievers

10 Women Who Helped Shape America (Grades 4-8) Short Plays for the Classroom
by Sarah Glasscock (Editor)
1999: Scholastic Books
Includes plays about Lucy Stone and her sister-in-law Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman in the United States to receive her degree as a Doctor of Medicine

Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride: Based on a True Story
by Pam Munoz Ryan & Brian Selznick (Illustrator)
1999: Hyperion Books For Children
About Amelia Earhart's and Eleanor Roosevelt's airplane adventure

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
by Meryl Henderson (Illustrator), Beatrice Gormley (Author)
1999: Aladdin Library

Streets of Gold (Picture Books)
by Rosemary Wells & Dan Andreasen (Illustrator)
1999: Dial Books for Young Readers
Biography of Mary Antin author of Promised Land

You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?
by Jean Fritz & ,Dyanne Disalvo-Ryan (Illustrator)
1995: Putnam Pub Group Juvenile
Biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton