Fresh Reads, Honest reviews, Educator-approved
The Woman All Spies Fear shines a light on the unsung genius of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, whose codebreaking brilliance helped shape history. Greenfield captures both the excitement of espionage and the quiet strength of a woman who refused to be defined by her era’s limits. A fascinating, empowering read for anyone who values intellect, perseverance, and the stories of women who changed the world.
How to Navigate Middle School shows readers how to handle the increasing academic demands of middle school, organizational skills and time management, how to be self-determined, have grit, and a sense of agency. Whether you are just starting middle school or getting ready for the next grade, you probably have ideas about what the school year will be like–or should be like.
For the first time ever, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate His Holiness the Dalai Lama addresses children directly, sharing lessons of peace and compassion, told through stories of his own childhood.
How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhood—and the brilliant doctor who defied them. After Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school, more women demanded a chance to study medicine.
Kindra Neely never expected it to happen to her. No one does. Sure, she’d sometimes been close to gun violence, like when the house down the street from her childhood home in Texas was targeted in a drive-by shooting. But now she lived in Oregon, where she spent her time swimming in rivers with friends or attending classes at the bucolic Umpqua Community College.