Susan Reagan
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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This first-ever picture book biography about female Revolutionary War activist Prudence Wright shows how she assembled the first and only group of "minute women" to fight the British, forever changing history.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When Fannie Farmer learned to cook in the late 1800s, recipes could be pretty silly. They might call for "a goodly amount of salt" or "a lump of butter" or "a suspicion of nutmeg." Girls were supposed to use their "feminine instincts" in the kitchen (or maybe just guess). Despite this problem, Fannie loved cooking, so when polio prevented her from going to college, she became a teacher at the Boston Cooking School. Unlike her mother or earlier cookbook...
3) Lights out
Author
Publisher
Creative Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Animals embark on a quest to find true darkness when too many artificial lights at night confuse migrating birds, silence singing frogs, and affect the survival of nocturnal animals.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
This engaging picture book biography shows how pioneering astronomer Vera Rubin, who discovered evidence for the existence of dark matter, the most mysterious substance in the universe, changed people's understanding of both the universe and what a woman can do.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This STEM/STEAM picture book tells the story of Edith Clarke, the innovator who solved an electrical mystery and built the first graphing calculator--from paper, an accomplishment that helped her become of the first woman electrical engineer in America"--
Edith Clarke devoured numbers, puzzles, and brainteasers. She was an innovator who dreams of how mathematics could modernize America. Fascinated by electricity, Clarke solved an electrical mystery...
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