{"id":51216,"date":"2024-03-06T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=51216"},"modified":"2024-03-04T10:29:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T16:29:08","slug":"womens-history-month-reading-challenge-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/womens-history-month-reading-challenge-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s History Month Reading Challenge 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Celebrate Women\u2019s History Month! Log your reading and complete activities to earn badges throughout the challenge. Earn an entry into a drawing for one of our grand prizes for every badge earned.<\/p>\n

This reading challenge is live on Beanstack from March 1, 2024 to March 31, 2024. Curious what you need to do? Sign up on Beanstack today either online or on the app<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Needs ideas about what to read? Try any of these women’s history books.<\/p>\n

Juvenile Nonfiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cut!: how Lotte Reiniger and a pair of scissors revolutionized animation<\/em><\/a> by C.E. Winters<\/p>\n

Jovita wore pants: the story of a Mexican freedom fighter<\/em><\/a> by Aida Salazar<\/p>\n

Little Rosetta and the talking guitar: the musical story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the woman who invented rock and roll<\/em><\/a> by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow<\/p>\n

Love is loud: how Diane Nash led the Civil Rights Movement<\/em><\/a> by Sandra Neil Wallace<\/p>\n

To boldy go: how Nichelle Nichols and Star Trek helped advance civil rights<\/em><\/a> by Angela Dalton<\/p>\n

The Van Buren Sisters vs. the pants police<\/em><\/a> by Jennifer Fox<\/p>\n

The woman in the moon: how Margaret Hamilton helped fly the first astronauts to the moon<\/em><\/a> by Richard Maurer<\/p>\n

Adult Nonfiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brooding over Bloody Revenge: enslaved women’s lethal resistance<\/em><\/a> by Nikki Marie Taylor<\/p>\n

The exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the fight for women in science<\/em><\/a> by Kate Zernike<\/p>\n

Looking through the speculum: examining the women’s health movement<\/em> <\/a>by Judith A. Houck<\/p>\n

The Lost Princess: women writers and the history of classic fairy tales<\/em><\/a> by Anne E. Duggan<\/p>\n

Madame Restell: the life, death, and resurrection of old New York’s most fabulous, fearless, and infamous abortionist<\/em> <\/a>by Jennifer Wright<\/p>\n

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History<\/em><\/a> by Philippa Gregory<\/p>\n

Proving Ground: the untold story of the six women who programmed the world’s first modern computer<\/em><\/a> by Kathy Kleiman<\/p>\n

A Rome of one’s own: the forgotten women of the Roman Empire<\/em><\/a> by Emma Southon<\/p>\n

The six: the untold story of America’s first women astronauts<\/em><\/a> by Loren Grush<\/p>\n

Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism<\/em><\/a> by Brooke Kroeger<\/p>\n

Young queens: three Renaissance women and the price of power<\/em><\/a> by Leah L. Chang<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Celebrate Women\u2019s History Month! Log your reading and complete activities to earn badges throughout the challenge. Earn an entry into a drawing for one of our grand prizes for every badge earned. This reading challenge is live on Beanstack from March 1, 2024 to March 31, 2024. Curious what you[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[361,10,14,1],"tags":[8134,6383,3958,2859],"class_list":["post-51216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-books","category-books","category-library-news","category-reference","tag-8134","tag-beanstack","tag-reading-challenge","tag-womens-history-month"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-dk4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51216"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51248,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51216\/revisions\/51248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}