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Tanya Lee Stone
A nonfiction picture book telling the inspiring story of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor.
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In the 1830s, when a girl named Elizabeth Blackwell was growing up, women were supposed to be wives and mothers. Career options were few. Certainly no women were doctors. But…
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An inspiring picture book biography about Rosalind Franklin, the ground breaking chemist who helped discover the structure of DNA, by the award-winning, bestselling author of Who Says Women Can't Be…
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Stone ( Almost Astronauts ) examines the little-known history of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, who fought in an attack on the American West by the Japanese. The OTriple Nickles…
The story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her fight to win the vote for women
Powerful… . We love this book. -GLAMOUR
With delicacy and great empathy, Stone … prod[s] young readers to think of what better sort of girlhood is possible. -THE WASHINGTON POST
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Do you ever wonder what you are really seeing when you look at pictures transmitted from space? Do you marvel at today’s discoveries? Can you imagine how we ever got…
Describes how Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun, was first discovered, how it was studied in the 20th century, and what we know about it today.
"From an award-winning author comes a vivid depiction of an act of war from opposing sides of the conflict in World War II--and a rare reconciliation and wish for peace…
What does it take to be an astronaut? Mastery at flying, courage, intelligence, resistance to stress, being in top shape - any checklist would certainly include these. But when America…
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When NASA was launched in 1958, 13 women proved they had as much of the right stuff as men to be astronauts, but their way to space was blocked by…
A nonfiction picture book history of Monopoly, one of the world’s most famous games.
Ada Lovelace is recognised today as history’s first computer programmer - she imagined them 100 years before they existed!
As a boy, Alexander ‘Sandy’ Calder was always fiddling with odds and ends, making objects for friends. When he got older and became an artist, his fiddling led him to…
This is the story of Jane Addams, the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, who transformed a poor neighborhood in Chicago by opening up her house as…
In this new alphabet shaped book, families will enjoy learning about Passover as every page contains a letter of the alphabet. Full color.
Little ones will love learning about Thanksgiving in Stone’s newest shaped alphabet book. Join in as the elementary school puts on a play that tells the true story of the…
Kids can learn American history in this alphabet book. Rhyming couplets that flow through the alphabet help kids celebrate everything from the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence to Thomas…
