Girls Who Grew up Great : A Book of Encouragement for Girls about Amazing Women Who Dared to Dream

by GRAY GWENDOLYN (ED)

• ISBN13: 9780883967522
• ISBN10: 0883967529
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Blue Mountain Arts

Summary

This book is comprised of the short biographies of amazing women whose stories demonstrate that girls can do anything they set their minds to.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	7	(2)
Making Your Mark	9	(2)
Maria Montessori
Reaching for the Stars	11	(2)
Jerrie Cobb
Sally Ride
Performing with Passion	13	(2)
Clara Schumann
Standing Up (or Staying Put) for What You Know is Right	15	(2)
Rosa Parks
Finding Comfort in Your Talent	17	(1)
Frida Kahlo
Sticking with it	18	(1)
Dame Margot Fonteyn
Expressing Yourself	19	(2)
Natalia Makarova
Setting a Style All Your Own	21	(1)
Coco Chanel
Finding a Solution	22	(1)
Bette Nesmith Graham
Improving the World	23	(2)
Margaret Knight
Taking Matters into Your Own Hands	25	(2)
Sybil Ludington
Giving all You've Got	27	(2)
Maggie Lena Walker
Speaking Out Against Wrongs	29	(1)
Dorothea Lynde Dix
Going to Extraordinary Measures	30	(1)
Deborah Sampson
Paving Your Own Way	31	(2)
Miranda Stuart
Stealing the Show	33	(2)
Sarah Bernhardt
Making a Difference	35	(2)
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey
Planting the Seeds of Tomorrow	37	(2)
Wangari Maathai
Telling it How it is	39	(2)
Murasaki Shikibu
Exercising all Your Potential	41	(2)
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Fighting for Fairness	43	(2)
Angelina Grimke
Sarah Moore Grimke
Discovering the Important Things in Life	45	(2)
Rosalind Franklin
Making a Name for Yourself	47	(2)
Rosa Bonheur
Proving Yourself to the World	49	(1)
Billy Jean King
Standing Your Ground	50	(1)
Queen Boudica
Leading the Way Together	51	(2)
Trung Trac
Trung Nhi
Making the World a Better Place	53	(2)
Rachel Carson
Singing Your Own Praises	55	(2)
Marian Anderson
Thinking Beyond Today	57	(2)
Ada Augusta Byron
Lady Lovelace
Taking Charge	59	(2)
Hatchepsut
Climbing to New Heights	61	(1)
Junko Tabei
Your Notes	62	(2)
Acknowledgments	64