Titles in this Set:
Amelia Earhart
Marie Curie
Rosa Parks
Harriet Tubman
Jane Goodall
Amelia Earhart
When Amelia was young, she liked to imagine she could stretch her wings and fly away like a bird. As a grown woman, she set a new female world record for flying up to 14,000 feet. She also flew across the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans, and eventually undertook the most dangerous mission of all: to fly all the way around the world.
Marie Curie
When Marie Curie was young, she was unable to attend university because she was a woman. But when she was older, her scientific work was respected around the world. Her discoveries of radium and polonium dramatically helped in the fight against cancer, and she went on to win the Nobel Prize for Physics! The inspiring story of this clever and courageous woman features a facts and photos section at the back.
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks grew up in Alabama, where she learned to stand up for herself at an early age. Rosa went on to become a civil rights activist whose courage and dignity sparked the movement that ended segregation. She never stopped working for equal rights. This
inspiring story of her life features a facts and photos section at the back.
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was born into slavery on a plantation in Maryland, U.S.A. Though life was hard, Harriet persisted. She used all of her strength and bravery to escape slavery
and journey north on the Underground Railroad. Harriet made the dangerous mission back to the South many times, fighting her whole life to bring others with her to freedom. The incredible story of her life features a facts and photos section at the back.
Jane Goodall
When Jane was little, her father gave her a toy chimpanzee called Jubilee. This inspired her lifelong love of animals and she went to study them in the wild as soon as she could. Jane lived with chimpanzees in their natural habitat and became famous for her
pioneering approach to research. She now educates the public on animal rights. This inspiring story of her life features a facts and photos section at the back.
