Did you know March is Women's History Month? Well, it is. So give it up for the lay-deees!
I'd had a hard time finding a visually pleasing poster for it, so I was happy to obtain the one above from the "Diversity Store," HERE.
The World War II woman above is from a free set of historical encyclopedia posters I picked up at some library conference. I cut the commercial stuff off and then my library volunteer aunt created that lovely lady-border around it using flowery stationery. Clever, yes?
We used the nicest pictures from an old calendar of "Women Reading." "The Reading Woman?" Something like that. Then we added appropriate books to the display. Alcott's Little Women, A Break With Charity (Salem Witch Trials) by Ann Rinaldi, Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo, and Beyond the Burning Time by Kathryn Lasky.
Women's History ain't always pretty, you guys. Shit happens.
And here's the image I use for a bibliographic bookmark I call "Sugar & Spikes," which features edgier books for edgy girls.
Here's the list of books, all of which are available in our school library:
FICTION
The
Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy & Goth Girl by
Barry Lyga
Bad
Girls, Bad Girls, Watcha Gonna Do? by Cynthia Voigt
Blister by
Susan Shreve
Blue
Is For Nightmares
by Laurie Faria Stolarz
Born
Blue
by Han Nolan
Boy
Proof
by Cecil Castellucci
Changeling by
Yasmine Galenorn
Cut by
Patricia McCormick
Dark
Secrets: Legacy of Lies by Elizabeth Chandler
Define
“Normal”
by Julie Anne Peters
The
Diviners
by Libba Bray
Generation
Dead
by Daniel Waters
Ghostgirl by
Tonya Hurley
Gingerbread by
Rachel Cohn
Glass
Houses
by Rachel Caine
Go
Ask Alice
by Anonymous
Goat
Girls
by Francesca Lia Block
Green
Angel
by Alice Hoffman
Hard
Love
by Ellen Wittlinger
Haters by
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
I’d
Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have To Kill You by
Ally Carter
I
Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone by Stephanie Kuehnert
Lucy
the Giant
by Sherri L. Smith
Midnight
Predator
by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Nick
& Nora’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn & David
Levithan
Poison by
Chris Wooding
Stoner
& Spaz
by Ron Koertge
Stop
Pretending
by Sonya Sones
Sunshine by
Robin McKinley
This
Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales
Threshold by
Caitlin R. Kiernan
Tithe:
a Modern Faerie Tale
by Holly Black
NON-FICTION
33 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women’s History… edited by Tonya Bolden
Girls: a History of Growing Up Female In America by Penny Colman
Patently Female: Stories of Women Inventors and Their Breakthrough Ideas by Vare and Ptacek
Picture the Girl: Young Women Speak Their Minds by Audrey Shehyn
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There's also this, which we put on the smaller bulletin board behind the counter--
Years ago the Librarian and I made these "framed" pics of famous women, just by printing nice pictures out in black & white, and putting a backing frame of black construction paper, then creating labels that say who the women are, and what they're famous for. So we have Jane Goodall, Rosa Parks, and Abigail Adams. It's probably time I added some more ladies to this little gallery.