Diversity Bibliography –

Women Can Do Anything!

This collection of books is about women and girls who would not
take “no” as an answer. Read the inspiring stories of female
artists, scientists, athletes, and more who prove that a woman’s
place is wherever she wants it to be.
Diversity Bibliography –Women Can Do Anything!

Byers, Grace. I Am Enough. New York: Balzer + Bray, 2018.

Each one of us is enough. This simple story reminds us that we

can be everything we want to be. Girls can do anything. The
drawings show that everyone is different, but the same too.
Girls have the power to be themselves.

Denise, Anika Aldamuy. Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian

and Storyteller Pura Belpré. New York: Harper, 2019.

Librarian and artist Pura Belpré came to America from Puerto

Rico. Children and adults loved to hear her folktales and watch
the puppet shows she put on for the New York City Library.
There were no books in Spanish available at the library, so Pura
wrote her own.

Macy, Sue. Motor Girls: How Women Took the Wheel and
Drove Boldly Into the Twentieth Century. Washington, DC:
National Geographic, 2017.

In 1909, Alice Ramsey became the first woman to drive a car

across the United States. Some people wondered if women
should drive. They thought it might be too hard for women. In
World War I, women drove ambulances and other cars. “Motor
girls” made a difference.
Pimentel, Annette Bay. Girl Running: Bobbi Gibb and the
Boston Marathon. New York: Nancy Paulsen, 2018.

Bobbi Gibb loved to run. She ran at school every day, and she
was fast. Bobbi wanted to run in the world-famous Boston
Marathon. The race organizers said no. Nobody thought a
woman could run 26.22 miles. Bobbi knew she could. She
proved it. In 1966, Bobbi became the first woman to run and
finish the Boston Marathon.
Robeson, Teresa. Queen Of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung
Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom. New York: Sterling
Children’s, 2019.

Wi Chien Shiung was born in China in 1912. When she was

growing up, girls usually did not go to school. Chien Shiung
went to school and became a scientist. She loved physics and
researched tiny particles, called atoms. She helped prove other
scientists’ ideas with careful research.
Created by Stephanie Seaman, March 2020