This year more than ever, our WITS students have been devouring biographies! From picture book biographies and early readers to longer chapter books, our Mid-Day Mentoring and Workplace Mentoring students can access various biographies during the year. During March, we’ve been highlighting biographies of rad women in honor of Women’s History Month. Here are ten titles that have been particularly popular in programs recently:
- Sisters: Venus and Serena Williams by Jeanette Winter
- Lillian’s Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by Jonah Winter and Shane W. Evans
- Everyday Superheroes: Women in STEM Careers by Erin Twamley and Joshua Sneideman
- Sing with Me: The Story of Selena Quintanilla by Diana Lopez
- Malala, a Brave Girl from Pakistan/Iqbal, a Brave Boy from Pakistan: Two Stories of Bravery by Jeanette Winter
- National Geographic Readers: Anne Frank by Alexandra Zapruder
- Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx / La juez que crecio en el Bronx by Jonah Winter
- A Girl Named Misty: The True Story of Misty Copeland by Kelly Starling Lyons
- Danza! Amalia Hernandez and Mexico’s Folkloric Ballet by Duncan Tonatiuh
- Work It, Girl: Beyoncé Knowles: Rule the music scene like Queen by Caroline Moss
- Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald by Roxane Orgill
- Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings
- Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries who Shaped Our History . . . and Our Future! By Kate Schatz
- Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean’s Most Fearless Scientist by Jess Keating
- Katherine Johnson: Ready-to-Read Level 3 (You Should Meet) by Thea Feldman
