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Rockliff, Mara

Summary: "In April 1916, Nell Richardson and Alice Burke set out from New York City in a little yellow car, embarking on a bumpy, muddy, unmapped journey ten thousand miles long. They took with them a teeny typewriter, a tiny sewing machine, a wee black kitten, and a message for Americans all across the country: Votes for Women! The women's suffrage movement was in full swing, and Nell and Alice would...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 ROC

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 ROC

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 ROC

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J324.6 ROC

Rosenstock, Barb

Summary: "When President Woodrow Wilson arrived in Washington, DC, to start his first term, women's rights leader Alice Paul was ready to demand an amendment to the Constitution that allowed women to vote. The president thought that idea was ridiculous! THEIR FIGHT BEGAN. For the next five years, Alice and her suffragists battered Wilson and his supporters with arguments and protests. Their peaceful...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 ROS

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 Ros

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

Summary: "A history of the iconic first women's march in 1913 and the suffragists who led the way to passing the 19th amendment"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 BAR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 BAR

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 BAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J324.6 BAR

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT 324.6 Bartoletti

Johnson, Dinah

Summary: "A picture book biography about Ida B. Wells and her life as a suffragist, with a focus on the Women's March of 1913"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WEL

Bjornlund, Lydia D.

Summary: "Examines leaders of the suffrage movement, the role of African American women in the movement, militant suffragists, and antisuffragists."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.623 BJO

Stirling, Jasmine

Summary: "Carrie Chapman Catt mobilized people across the nation to dare to question a woman's right to vote"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CAT

Pollack, Pam

Summary: Profiles the life and accomplishments of the schoolteacher who became the most famous leader of the women's rights movement.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET ANTHONY

Roberts, David

Summary: Imprisonment, hunger strikes, suffrajitsu -- the decades-long fight for women's right to vote was at times a ferocious one. Acclaimed artist David Roberts gives these important, socially transformative times their due in a colorfully illustrated history that includes many of the important faces of the movement in portraiture and scenes that both dignify and enliven. He has created a timely and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 ROB

Fankhouser, Kris

Summary: "A biography on the American women's rights leader Susan B. Anthony"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANT

Conkling, Winifred

Summary: On August 18, 1920, American women finally won the right to vote. Ratification of the 19th Amendment was the culmination of an almost eighty-year fight in which some of the fiercest, most passionate women in history marched, protested, and sometimes broke the law in to achieve this huge leap toward equal rights. In this expansive yet personal volume, author Winifred Conkling covers not only...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2018

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 Con

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2 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 973 CON

Kulling, Monica

Summary: "It's not fair." Susan B. Anthony was very concerned about fairness and equality for women and girls in America. She knew it wasn't fair to pay a woman less than a man for the same job. She knew it wasn't fair not to allow women to vote in elections. In fact, it was illegal for women to vote. But she felt so strongly, she voted in an election--and was arrested--anyway. Young readers will learn...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020

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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN KUL

Robb, Lucinda

Summary: A look at some of the prominent women behind the suffragist movement in the U.S. offers readers an eye-opening look at the tactics and strategies employed in one of the largest, longest and least well-known movements in American history, as well as a clear-eyed view of some of the movement's key figures, including Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 324.6 ROB

Latta, Sara L.

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Mary Edwards Walker was a Civil War surgeon, a spy captured by the Confederacy, and the only woman to have ever been awarded the Medal of Honor. But she was erased from history, in part because her ideas didn't fit with the mainstream suffrage movement. Latta introduces readers to Walker's remarkable life and accomplishments. She shows how Walker continued to break gender norms and speak out...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2022

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

Kanefield, Teri

Summary: In the fourth installment in the Making of America series, Susan B. Anthony, Teri Kanefield examines the life of America's famous suffragette. Anthony was born into a world in which men ruled women: A man could beat his wife, take her earnings, have her committed into an asylum based on his word, and take her children away from her. While the young nation was ablaze with the radical notion that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Abrams 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANT

Wallner, Alexandra.

Summary: A brief biography of women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony that discusses her early years and her battle to earn women fair treatment and the right to vote.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2012

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANT

Slade, Suzanne.

Summary: Discusses how a former slave and an outspoken woman, who came from two different worlds, shared deep-seated beliefs in equality and the need to fight for it.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD 303.48 Slade 2015

Macdonald, Fiona

Summary: A look at the dark side of history offers up the surprising difficulties endured by women suffragists who stood up for women's rights, including the right to vote.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 2009

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 MAC

Gillibrand, Kirsten

Summary: Profiles ten women who fought hard to gain the right to vote in the United States, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, and Inez Milholland.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House 2018

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Stone, Tanya Lee.

Summary: This inspiring story is about an extraordinary woman who changed America forever because she wouldn't take no for an answer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2008

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE America Stone

Kops, Deborah

Summary: Describes the life and accomplishments of the women's rights activist, from her youth to the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights 2017

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

Weisberg, Barbara.

Summary: A biography of an early leader in the campaign for women's rights, particularly in getting women the right to vote.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1988

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB ANTHONY WEI

Hopkinson, Deborah.

Summary: Like other girls of her time Susan B. Anthony learned how to cook and sew. But unlike most girls she also received an education. She learned reading, writing, and arithmetic. She was also taught that girls and women could do anything boys and men could do-if only they were allowed. So Susan set out to change the laws. She fought for a woman's right to own property, hold down a job, and, most...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2005

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1 available in Juvenile Paperback - Blue, Call number: JBR BLUE HOP

Weiss, Elaine F.

Summary: "This adaptation of the book Hillary Clinton calls "a page-turning drama and an inspiration" will spark the attention of young readers and teach them about activism, civil rights, and the fight for women's suffrage--just in time for the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. Includes an eight-page photo insert! American women are so close to winning the right to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 WEI

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 WEI

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 WEI

Brown, Monica

Summary: A powerful and accesible bilingual picture book that highlights "the power and impact of ordinary but dedicated citizens." Every day, thousands of farmworkers harvested the food that ended up on kitchen tables all over the country. But at the end of the day, when the workers sat down to eat, there were only beans on their own tables. Then Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez teamed up. Together they...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BRO

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BRO

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