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A forgotten story of Dr. Mary Walker, the only female Medal of Honor recipient. Despite its slightly simplistic prose, this image-filled biography is an eye-opening account of a Civil War surgeon, spy, and radical suffragist who unapologetically challenged the gender norms of her time.
Girl. Warrior. Heretic. Saint? Joan of Arc is transformed into a flesh-and-blood young woman: reckless, steel-willed, and brilliant. Can you strip a saint of her faith and still keep her spirit alive? In Joan, Katherine J. Chen attempts a bold, secular reimagining of the iconic Joan of Arc.
A vivid reimagining of the woman who inspired Hester Prynne, the tragic heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, and a journey into the enduring legacy of New England’s witchcraft trials.
Bring crucial social justice conversations to the forefront with Brianna Jonnie’s five-star graphic novel, If I Go Missing. Combining spare, devastating text with striking black-and-white artwork by Neal Shannacappo, this high school title challenges systemic biases in policing and media coverage regarding missing Indigenous youth.
What if a single missing word could change the way history remembers women? In The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams tells the unforgettable story of a young girl who discovers that the words left out of the Oxford English Dictionary reveal just as much as the ones included.