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A Perfect Fit: How Lena "Lane" Bryant Changed the Shape of Fashion
Discover how the Lane Bryant clothing brand changed the way we buy clothes forever by celebrating bodies of all shapes and sizes in this inclusive picture book biography of a Lithuanian immigrant with a brilliant eye for fashion and business. With stunning artwork from...- $17.99
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Anything But Ordinary Addie: The True Story of Adelaide Herrmann, Queen of Magic
Be astonished and dazzled by the true story of Adelaide Herrmann, the Queen of Magic Some girls are perfectly happy never doing anything out of the ordinary. But Addie was anything but ordinary. She longed for thrills and excitement At a time when a...- $17.99
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Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, a Kitten, and 10,000 Miles
The author of Mesmerized delivers another fascinating glimpse into history, this time the story of two brave suffragists on a trek across America to spread the word: Votes for Women In April 1916, Nell Richardson and Alice Burke set out from New York City...- $8.99
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Billie Jean!: How Tennis Star Billie Jean King Changed Women's Sports
A fun and inspiring picture book biography of tennis legend and women's rights activist Billie Jean King. From award-winning author Mara Rockliff and New York Times-bestselling illustrator Elizabeth Baddeley comes this extraordinary picture book about one little girl who loved sports and grew up...- $17.99
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Born to Swing: Lil Hardin Armstrong's Life in Jazz
Here is the story of Hot Miss Lil Hardin Armstrong, legendary jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader--and a female pioneer on the music stage. Ever since she was a young girl, Lil Hardin played music with a beat. She jammed at home, at church, and...- $17.95
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Chik Chak Shabbat
"As warm and comforting as a bowl of cholent, this does a fine job of showing how the American mosaic can also be a satisfying whole." -- Booklist (starred review) When Goldie Simcha doesn't joyfully throw open her door to welcome everyone into her...- $7.99
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Chik Chak Shabbat
Celebrate Shabbat, community, and diverse traditions with this lyrical tale, illustrated with a lively and whimsical touch. When Goldie Simcha doesn't joyfully throw open her door to welcome everyone in to her apartment for a meal of her famous cholent, her neighbors wonder what...- $15.99
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Doctor Esperanto and the Language of Hope
Meet the boy who made up his own language -- and brought hope to millions. Once there was a town of many languages but few kind words. Growing up Jewish in Bialystok, Poland, in the late 1800s, young Leyzer Zamenhof was surrounded by languages:...- $16.99
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Jefferson Measures a Moose
The author of Mesmerized shares another comical true tale of a Founding Father using science to defeat ignorance and stop the spread of false information. Thomas Jefferson was wild about numbers. He was constantly counting, measuring, and observing things that caught his interest. He...- $17.99
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Lights! Camera! Alice!: The Thrilling True Adventures of the First Woman Filmmaker (Film Book for Kids, Non-Fiction Picture Book, Inspiring Ch
Meet Alice Guy-Blach . She made movies--some of the very first movies, and some of the most exciting Blow up a pirate ship? Why not? Crawl into a tiger's cage? Of course Leap off a bridge onto a real speeding train? It will be...- $17.99
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Me and Momma and Big John
Momma is a stonecutter at the cathedral called Big John -- and little John and his sisters can't wait to see her special stone -- in this luminous true-life story. Building a cathedral isn't a job, it's an art.Momma comes home from work, tired...- $16.99
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Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery That Baffled All of France
Discover how Benjamin Franklin's scientific method challenged a certain Dr. Mesmer's mysterious powers in a whimsical look at a true moment in history. The day Ben Franklin first set foot in Paris, France, he found the city all abuzz. Everyone was talking about something...- $17.99
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Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery That Baffled All of France
"Together, Rockliff and Bruno make the scientific method seem exciting, and kids interested in science and history will likely be, well, mesmerized." -- Booklist (starred review) When American inventor Benjamin Franklin arrives in Paris, he is upstaged by a compelling and enigmatic figure: Dr....- $7.99
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Signs of Hope: The Revolutionary Art of Sister Corita Kent
Signs of Hope is a picture book biography of groundbreaking artist, teacher, and Catholic nun Corita Kent from critically acclaimed author Mara Rockliff, with stunning full-color art from Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet. Let Corita teach you how to see the world in a...- $19.99
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Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
An inspiring picture-book biography about the woman whose cooking helped feed and fund the Montgomery bus boycott of 1956, from an award-winning illustrator. Georgia Gilmore was cooking when she heard the news Mrs. Rosa Parks had been arrested--pulled off a city bus and thrown...- $21.99
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Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
An inspiring picture-book biography about the woman whose cooking helped feed and fund the Montgomery bus boycott of 1956, from an award-winning illustrator. Georgia Gilmore was cooking when she heard the news Mrs. Rosa Parks had been arrested--pulled off a city bus and thrown...- $18.99
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The Girl Who Could Fix Anything: Beatrice Shilling, World War II Engineer
This true story of a woman whose brilliance and mechanical expertise helped Britain win World War II is sure to inspire STEM readers and fans of amazing women in history. Beatrice Shilling wasn't quite like other children. She could make anything. She could fix...- $17.99
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The Grudge Keeper
How do you resolve a grudge? Take it to the Grudge Keeper! But be careful not to accumulate too many. No one in the town of Bonnyripple ever kept a grudge. No one, that is, except Cornelius, the Grudge Keeper. Ruffled feathers, petty snits,...- $17.99
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The Grudge Keeper
How do you resolve a grudge? Take it to the Grudge Keeper! But be careful not to accumulate too many. No one in the town of Bonnyripple ever kept a grudge. No one, that is, except Cornelius, the Grudge Keeper. Ruffled feathers, petty snits,...- $7.99
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Try It!: How Frieda Caplan Changed the Way We Eat
Meet fearless Frieda Caplan--the produce pioneer who changed the way Americans eat by introducing exciting new fruits and vegetables, from baby carrots to blood oranges to kiwis--in this brightly illustrated nonfiction picture book In 1956, Frieda Caplan started working at the Seventh Street Produce...- $17.99
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