Lewis, Anna M.

Summary: "Reporting on a range of historical and contemporary female builders and designers, this educational book strives to inspire a new generation of girls in the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and math. With many of the profiles set againstthe backdrop of such landmark events as the women's suffrage and civil rights movements and the Industrial Revolution, and with original...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Independent Pub Group 2014

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 LEW

Cornioley, Pearl Witherington

Summary: "Pearl Witherington Cornioley, one of the most celebrated female World War II resistance fighters, shares her remarkable story in this firsthand account of her experience as a special agent for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). Told througha series of reminiscences--from a difficult childhood spent in the shadow of World War I and her family's harrowing escape from France as the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Independent Pub Group 2013

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 COR

Hollihan, Kerrie Logan.

Summary: "The tremendous struggles women have faced as war correspondents and photojournalists A profile of 16 courageous women, Reporting Under Fire tells the story of journalists who risked their lives to bring back scoops from the front lines. Each woman--including Sigrid Schultz, who broadcast news via radio from Berlin on the eve of the Second World War; Margaret Bourke-White, who rode with General...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 HOL