A hundred years before the dawn of the digital age, Ada Lovelace envisioned the computer-driven world we know today. And in demonstrating how the machine would be coded, she wrote the first computer program. She would go down in history as Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer.  Ages 4-8

Follows Ibtisam Barakat through her childhood and adolescence in Palestine from 1972-1981 and chronicles her desire to be a writer. Ibtisam finds inspiration through writing letters to pen pals and from an adult who encourages her to keep at it, but the most surprising turn of all for Ibtisam happens when her mother decides that she would like to seek out an education, too.  Ages 12 and up

This story imagines what it was like when Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass got together for a cup of tea and discussed their struggle for civil rights.  Ages 4-8

Nora Lopez is seventeen during the summer of 1977, when New York is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam. Meg Medina transports us to a time when tempers and temperatures ran high to share the story of a young woman who discovers that the greatest dangers are often closer than we like to admit.  Ages 14 and up

At cheerleading camp, Hermione is drugged and raped, but she is not sure whether it was one of her teammates or a boy on another team–and in the aftermath she has to deal with the rumors in her small Ontario town, the often awkward reaction of her classmates, the rejection of her boyfriend, the discovery that her best friend, Polly, is gay, and above all the need to remember what happened so that the guilty boy can be brought to justice.  Ages 14 and up

Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent a lifetime disagreeing: disagreeing with inequality, arguing against unfair treatment, and standing up for what’s right for people everywhere. This biographical picture book about the Notorious RBG, tells the justice’s story through the lens of her many famous dissents, or disagreements.  Ages 4-8

On an island off the south coast of Victorian England, fourteen-year-old Faith investigates the mysterious death of her father, who was involved in a scandal, and discovers a tree that feeds upon lies and gives those who eat its fruit visions of truth.  Ages 12 and up

In 1856, when Kate Warne went to see Allan Pinkertown, only men were detectives but Kate convinced Pinkertown to hire her explaining that she could worm out secrets where men could not go — in disguise as a society lady.  Kate’s most important mission was to thwart a plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the way to his inauguration.  Ages 5-8

A historical picture book about Edith Houghton, a female baseball phenomenon who joined the professional women’s team the Bobbies at the age of 10. Ages 4-7

Helen wants to contribute to the war effort after the United States goes to war in 1917–so she joins the Women’s Land Army of America, an organization that trains women to do farm work, replacing the workers drafted into the army. Ages 6-9