Books like Jovita Wore Pants: The Story of a Mexican Freedom Fighter
By Aida Salazar
For the kid who bristles at being told what girls can't do, Jovita's story is proof that determination can rewrite the rules. Sweeping, lyrical, and fiercely determined, with real historical weight.
A girl in Hawaiʻi who feels neither wahine nor kane sets her sights on leading her school's boys-only hula troupe in a traditional kane chant.
A biography of Wilma Mankiller, who was forced from her Cherokee Oklahoma home as a child, found community in San Francisco, and returned home to become the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation.
A young Indigenous girl decides to grow her hair long, after her mother's was called too wild and her grandmother's was taken from her, to honor her family and culture.
A poem honoring Black American life across history — the pain of slavery, the courage of the civil rights movement, and the achievements of dreamers, artists, and everyday heroes.
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.
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.
When her mother is deported to Mexico for not being born in the U.S., eight-year-old Estela writes letter after letter — to newspapers, Congress, even the President — until someone finally listens.
A girl who sings to the sun, the moon, and the birds outside her window says yes to a solo in her school's Spring Sing — then has to face the butterflies of stage fright with her grandmother's help.
A young girl leaves her grandmother's house in Mexico to join her parents and brother in New York, facing a new language, unfair accusations, and the slow work of calling a new place home.
An eight-year-old girl lies on her Harlem rooftop under the stars and imagines herself flying above the city, claiming its buildings and bridges as her own.
A Puerto Rican girl grows up surrounded by love and pride in her Taíno and African heritage, but painful treatment from the world slowly dims her sense of her own beauty — until her community rallies to wake her up again.
A girl starting her first day of school comes home discouraged when classmates mispronounce her name, then decides to go back and teach them to say it right — even if it takes a hundred tries.
