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- I could do that, Ester Morris gets women the vote, Linda Arms White ; pictures by Nancy Carpenter
- Oprah Winfrey, Lois P. Nicholson
- Heroines, rescuers, rabbis, spies, unsung women of the Holocaust, by Sarah Silberstein Swartz
- She did it!, 21 women who changed the way we think, by Emily Arnold McCully
- Jovita wore pants, the story of a Mexican freedom fighter, by Aida Salazar ; art by Molly Mendoza
- Ketanji, Justice Jackson's journey to the U.S. Supreme Court, written by Kekla Magoon ; illustrated by Laura Freeman
- My dead parents, a memoir, Anya Yurchyshyn
- It's my whole life, Charlotte Salomon : an artist in hiding during World War II, Susan Wider
- Martha Graham, a dancer's life, by Russell Freedman
- Who was Marie Antoinette?, by Dana Meachen Rau ; illustrated by John O'Brien
- Sacagawea, by Lise Erdrich ; illustrations by Julie Buffalohead
- Mary Church Terrell, leader for equality, Patricia and Fredrick McKissack
- Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?, by Patricia Brennan Demuth ; illustrated by Jake Murray
- Princess Diana, by Walter Oleksy
- A history of me, written by Adrea Theodore ; illustrated by Erin K. Robinson
- Beyoncé, pop star, Katie Lajiness
- A girl named Rosa, the true story of Rosa Parks, by Denise Lewis Patrick ; illustrated by Melissa Manwill
- We believe in you, 12 stories of courage, action, and faith for women and girls, Bonnie Hurd Smith
- How do you spell unfair?, MacNolia Cox and the national spelling bee, Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Frank Morrison
- Saving American Beach, the biography of African American environmentalist MaVynee Betsch, written by Heidi Tyline King ; illustrated by Caldecott honoree Ekua Holmes
- America's champion swimmer, Gertrude Ederle, David A. Adler ; illustrated by Terry Widener
- The woman all spies fear, code breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and her hidden life, Amy Butler Greenfield
- The youngest marcher, the story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a young civil rights activist, Cynthia Levinson ; illustrated by Vanessa Brantley Newton
- Pocahontas, Leslie Gourse ; illustrated by Meryl Henderson
- Eliza, the story of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, words by Margaret McNamara ; artwork by Esmé Shapiro ; with an afterword by Phillipa Soo
- Path to the stars, my journey from Girl Scout to rocket scientist, Sylvia Acevedo, CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA
- Anne Bonny and Mary Read, fearsome female pirates of the eighteenth century, Aileen Weintraub
- Who was Joan of Arc?, by Pam Pollack and Meg Belviso ; illustrated by Andrew Thomson
- Michelle Kwan, by Rosemary Wallner
- Not playing by the rules, 21 female athletes who changed sports, Lesa Cline-Ransome
- Who is Sonia Sotomayor?, by Megan Stine ; illustrated by Dede Putra
- I dreamed I was a ballerina, story by Anna Pavlova ; art by Edgar Degas
- Revolutionary poet, a story about Phillis Wheatley, by Maryann N. Weidt ; illustrations by Mary O'Keefe Young
- Mother to tigers, written by George Ella Lyon
- Who was Rachel Carson?, by Sarah Fabiny ; illustrated by Dede Putra
- Alabama spitfire, the story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Bethany Hegedus ; illustrated by Erin McGuire
- Bold & brave, ten heroes who won women the right to vote, written by Kirsten Gillibrand ; art by Maira Kalman
- The best of the best in figure skating, by Rachel Rutledge
- What Miss Mitchell saw, written by Hayley Barrett ; illustrated by Diana Sudyka
- Poet, pilgrim, rebel, the story of Anne Bradstreet, America's first published poet, by Katie Munday Williams ; illustrated by Tania Rex
- Who was Amelia Earhart?, by Kate Boehm Jerome ; illustrated by David Cain
- Mary's idea, Chris Raschka
- Who was Sacagawea?, by Dennis Brindell Fradin and Judith Bloom Fradin ; illustrated by Val Paul Taylor
- The girl who drew butterflies, how Maria Merian's art changed science, Joyce Sidman
- I have the right to, a high school survivor's story of sexual assault, justice, and hope, Chessy Prout, with Jenn Abelson
- Bad girls throughout history, 100 remarkable women who changed the world, Ann Shen
- Vanished!, the mysterious disappearance of Amelia Earhart, by Monica Kulling ; illustrated by Ying-Hwa Hu and Cornelius Van Wright
- Who was Princess Diana?, by Ellen Labrecque ; illustrated by Jerry Hoare
- Where the action was, women war correspondents in World War II, by Penny Colman
- Searching for Sarah Rector, the richest Black girl in America, Tonya Bolden