Books like Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams
By Lesa Cline-Ransome
For the kid who's already convinced they're going to be the best in the world at something someday, this is proof that the practice comes before the fame. Energetic, determined, warmly biographical with a competitive pulse.
A boy in Punjab, born with weak legs that kept him from playing cricket or walking to school, grows stronger year by year on his family's farm and eventually runs marathons at over one hundred years old.
A groundbreaking basketball player soars above the rim with a style no one had seen before, then takes a stand when hotels and restaurants refuse him for being Black.
A glamorous Hollywood movie star secretly spends her nights inventing — and during World War Two, she develops a groundbreaking communications system the military doesn't take seriously, at first, because of who she is.
A legendary railroad worker, born with a hammer in his hand and stronger than anyone around, takes on a steam drill to see who can dig through a mountain faster.
A long-legged girl who dreams of ballet worries her too-big feet and outspoken mouth will hold her back, so she takes bold, attention-grabbing risks when a famous director visits her class.
An original poem celebrates girls and girlhood in all their forms, honoring how girls have shaped history while calling them to stand together and march boldly into the future.
A true story of a young woman who climbs on her motorcycle alone and rides around the entire world, hitting flat tires and falls but always learning something new and getting back up.
A folk hero grows so fast he bursts through the porch roof, then grows into a legend — swinging two sledgehammers to build roads and racing a steam drill through a mountain.
A rap-inspired tribute moves through the stories of Indigenous heroes past and present — Tecumseh, Sacagawea, Crazy Horse, astronaut John Herrington, NHL goalie Carey Price — all building to one message: we are people who matter.
A biography of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, told through the many disagreements and dissents she voiced over a lifetime spent standing up against unfair treatment.
A determined young dancer in the 1930s and 40s trains for ballet despite discriminatory schools, then refuses to paint her skin white for a company's offer — and rises to become the Met Opera's first Black prima ballerina.
In a world where girls only wear dresses and boys only wear pants, a determined young girl named Mary decides she'll simply wear whatever she wants.
