March 8 is the global celebration of International Women’s Day. This day is dedicated to celebrating the achievements of women. We compiled 30 of our favorite teen reads that celebrate today’s trailblazing women and the women who paved the way to get here. See a title you like? Click on the title to place your hold via our online catalog.
Girl squads : 20 female friendships that changed history / by Sam Maggs
History vs women : the defiant lives that they don’t want you to know / Anita Sarkeesian & Ebony Aster
Still I rise : the persistence of phenomenal women / Marlene Wagman-Geller
Black women in science : a black history book for kids / Kimberly Brown Pellum, PhD
Bad girls throughout history / Ann Shen
Teen trailblazers : 30 fearless girls who changed the world before they were 20 / Jennifer Calvert
Rad girls can : stories of bold, brave, and brilliant young women / written by Kate Schatz
Women scientists hidden in history / Cynthia O’Brien
In her footsteps : where trailblazing women changed the world / contributors: Alexis Averbuck
Vote! : women’s fight for access to the ballot box / Coral Celeste Frazer
Atomic women : the untold stories of the scientists who helped create the nuclear bomb/ Roseanne Montillo
Mighty justice : the untold story of civil rights trailblazer Dovey Johnson Roundtree / Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Katie McCabe
Seen. Edmonia Lewis / written by Jasmine Walls
Finish the fight! : the brave and revolutionary women who fought for the right to vote / written by the Staff of The New York Times
The woman’s hour : our fight for the right to vote / Elaine Weiss
Lifting as we climb : Black women’s battle for the ballot box / Evette Dionne
Renegade women in film & TV / Elizabeth Weitzman
Powers of a girl : 65 Marvel women who punched the sky & changed the universe / written by Lorraine Cink
Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women’s fight for their rights / Mikki Kendall
Votes for women! : American suffragists and the battle for the ballot / Winifred Conkling
Becoming: Adapted for Young Readers / Michelle Obama
Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance / Nikki Grimes
Amazing women of the Middle East: 25 stories from ancient times to present day / Wafa Tarnowska
Women’s art work : more than 30 female artists who changed the world / written by Sophia Bennett
Brazen : rebel ladies who rocked the world / Pénélope Bagieu
March of the suffragettes : Rosalie Gardiner Jones and the march for voting rights / by Zachary Michael Jack
Haben : the deafblind woman who conquered Harvard Law / Haben Girma
Changing the equation : 50+ US Black women in STEM / Tonya Bolden
Standing up against hate : how black women in the Army helped change the course of WWII / Mary Cronk Farrell
Colonize this! : young women of color on today’s feminism / edited by Daisy Hernández and Bushra Rehman