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Top 10 Women's Suffrage : A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, A Time For Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists, Elizabeth Started All the Trouble, Things a Bright Girl Can Do, Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, I Could Do That!: Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote, Opal Plumstead, Secrets on 26th Street

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
AuthorMary Wollstonecraft
ISBN0141441259
Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity,...
A Time For Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen
AuthorKathryn Lasky
ISBN0590511416
As the fight for women's suffrage heats up, Kathleen"Kat" Bowen gets to participate as her mother and her sister, and many others close to her organize and act to win the right to vote.

January 19, 1917
The picket line has been going on for over a week! And people said they would not last a day...
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
AuthorElaine F. Weiss
ISBN0525429727
The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political victories in American history: the down and dirty campaign to get the last state to ratify the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote.

"Anyone interested in the history of our country's ongoing fight to put its founding values...
Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists
AuthorJean H. Baker
ISBN0809087030
How the Personal Became Political In the Fight to Grant Women Civil Rights

They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Alice Paul. At their revolution's start in the 1840s, a woman's right to speak in public was questioned. By its conclusion...
Elizabeth Started All the Trouble
AuthorDoreen Rappaport
ISBN0786851422
She couldn't go to college.

She couldn't become a politician.

She couldn't even vote.

But Elizabeth Cady Stanton didn't let that stop her.

She called on women across the nation to stand together and demand to be treated as equal to men-and that included the right...
Things a Bright Girl Can Do
AuthorSally Nicholls
ISBN1783445254
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2019, National Book Award, Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards and the YA Book Prize

Through rallies and marches, in polite drawing rooms and freezing prison cells and the poverty-stricken slums of the East End, three courageous young women join the fight for...
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
AuthorGeoffrey C. Ward
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were two heroic women who vastly bettered the lives of a majority of American citizens. For more than fifty years they led the public battle to secure for women the most basic civil rights and helped establish a movement that would revolutionize American society....
I Could Do That!: Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote
AuthorLinda Arms White
ISBN0374335273
Full of humor and spunk – just like Esther!



"I could do that," says six-year-old Esther as she watches her mother making tea. Start her own business at the age of nineteen? Why, she could do that, too. But one thing Esther and other women could NOT do was vote. Only men could do that.

With...
Opal Plumstead
AuthorJacqueline Wilson
ISBN0857531093
Opal Plumstead might be plain, but she has always been fiercely intelligent. Yet her scholarship and dreams of university are snatched away when her father is sent to prison, and fourteen-year-old Opal must start work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory to support her family.

Opal struggles to...
Secrets on 26th Street
AuthorElizabeth McDavid Jones
ISBN1562477609
History Mysteries are a fantastic way to introduce children and pre-teens to historical topics. One of the reasons I am so fascinated with history is because of these books and the American Girl books in general. Each one provides a snapshot into a specific historical event or theme, and builds a fictional...
Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, a Kitten, and 10,000 Miles
AuthorMara Rockliff
ISBN0763678937
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 in a little yellow car, embarking on...
Alice Paul: Claiming Power
AuthorJ.D. Zahniser
ISBN0199958424
Alice Paul redirected the course of American political history. Raised by Quaker parents in Moorestown, New Jersey, she would become a passionate and outspoken leader of the woman suffrage movement. In 1913, she reinvigorated the American campaign for a constitutional suffrage amendment and,...
The Hope Chest
AuthorKaren Schwabach
ISBN0375840958
A perfect Common Core tie-in, The Hope Chest includes nonfiction backmatter with period photographs, historical notes about the suffrage movement, and a Voting in America timeline. It's also a New York State Curriculum title for fourth grade.

Eleven-year-old Violet has one goal in mind...
She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head!
AuthorKathryn Lasky
ISBN0786811641
Feathers on ladies' hats were becoming more and more popular. Harriet Hemenway and her cousin Minna Hall believed something had to be done. Fashion was killing birds as well as women's chances to have the right to vote and be listened to. For who would listen to a woman with a dead bird on her head? And if...
Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote
AuthorSusan Zimet
ISBN0451477545
The United States of America is almost 250 years old, but American women won the right to vote less than a hundred years ago.

And when the controversial nineteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution - the one granting suffrage to women - was finally ratified in 1920, it passed by a mere one-vote...
You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?
AuthorJean Fritz
ISBN0606168486
I checked this out from the library thinking it would be one of Jean Fritz's picture books such as Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May?--which I love! It actually ended up being a 76 page biography (with a few illustrations) but was still wonderfully lively, sensitive and humorous--not to mention...
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
AuthorAdam Hochschild
ISBN0618758283
World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside...
Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement
AuthorSally G. McMillen
ISBN0195182650
In a quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would launch the woman's rights movement and change the course of history. The implications of that remarkable convention...
Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum, Peril, and Romance
AuthorMarthe Jocelyn
In the spirit of ANNE OF GREEN GABLES comes this delightful turn-of-the-century journal of a feisty, imaginative young girl who is finding her voice and the courage to make it heard.

It’s the year 1901, and fourteen-year-old aspiring writer Mable Riley is on her way to fulfilling her dreams,...
Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull
AuthorBarbara Goldsmith
ISBN0060953322
Barbara Goldsmith's portrait of suffragette Victoria Woodhull and her times was hailed by George Plimpton as "a beautifully written biography of a remarkable woman" and by Gloria Steinem as "more memorable than a dozen histories." A highly readable combination of history and biography, Other Powers...
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
AuthorMyra MacPherson
ISBN0446570230
A fresh look at the life and times of Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, two sisters whose radical views on sex, love, politics, and business threatened the white male power structure of the nineteenth century and shocked the world. Here award-winning author Myra MacPherson deconstructs and lays...
Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote
AuthorTanya Lee Stone
ISBN0805079033
Elizabeth Cady Stanton stood up and fought for what she believed in. From an early age, she knew that women were not given rights equal to men. But rather than accept her lesser status, Elizabeth went to college and later gathered other like-minded women to challenge the right to vote.Here is the inspiring...
The Firefly Letters
AuthorMargarita Engle
ISBN0805090827
The freedom to roam is something that women and girls in Cuba do not have. Yet when Fredrika Bremer visits from Sweden in 1851 to learn about the people of this magical island, she is accompanied by Cecilia, a young slave who longs for her lost home in Africa. Soon Elena, the wealthy daughter of the house,...
A Lady Has the Floor: Belva Lockwood Speaks Out for Women's Rights
AuthorKate Hannigan
ISBN1629794538
Unafraid to take to the floor and speak her mind, lawyer, activist, and presidential candidate Belva Lockwood devoted her life to overcoming obstacles and demanding equality for women.

Activist Belva Lockwood never stopped asking herself the question Are women not worth the same as men?...
Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
AuthorJonah Winter
ISBN0385390289
An elderly African American woman, en route to vote, remembers her family’s tumultuous voting history in this picture book publishing in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

As Lillian, a one-hundred-year-old African American woman, makes a “long haul...
Two Friends
AuthorDean Robbins
ISBN0545399963
Some people had rights, while others had none.
Why shouldn't they have them, too?

Two friends, Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, get together for tea and conversation. They recount their similar stories fighting to win rights for women and African Americans. The premise of this...
A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot
AuthorMary Walton
ISBN0230611753
Alice Paul began her life as a studious girl from a strict Quaker family in New Jersey. In 1907, a scholarship took her to England, where she developed a passionate devotion to the suffrage movement. Upon her return to the United States, Alice became the leader of the militant wing of the American suffrage...
The Princess and the Suffragette
AuthorHolly Webb
ISBN1407170856
It is 1913, nine years after the end of A Little Princess saw Sara Crewe escape Miss Minchin's orphanage.

Lottie, the smallest girl from the original story, learns about the Suffragette movement from Sara, who returns to visit from time to time. Soon Lottie finds herself sneaking out of the...
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