Sunstone DEIB Committee

Book Recommendations for Children

Ages 3-4

  • “Mae Among the Stars”, by Roda Ahmed
  • “Drum Dream Girl”, by Margarita Engle
  • “Stacey’s Extraordinary Words”, by Stacey Abrams
  • “She Loved Baseball: the Effa Manley Story”, by Audrey Vernick
  • “Unbeatable Betty: Betty Robinson, the First Female Olympic Track & Field Gold Medalist”, by Allison Crotzer Kimmel
  • “Up, Up, Ever Up! Junko Tabei: a Life in the Mountains”, by Anita Yasuda

Ages 5-6

  • “Daughter of the Light-Footed People”, by Belen Medina
  • “Ruby Bridges, This is Your Time”, by Ruby Bridges
  • “Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier”, by Jim Ottaviani & Maris Wicks
  • “Milloo’s Mind: the Story of Maryam Faruqi, Trailblazer for Women’s Education”, by Reem Faruqi
  • “Lucy Sings on Lucy Street”, by Lawrence Robers and Sally-Ann Roberts
  • “Girls Belong in Space” by Ashlee Hashman
  • “Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!”, by Tonya Bolden
  • “Be the Light: How She Became Angela Davis”, by Daria Peoples

Ages 7-8

  • Founding Mothers: Remembering the Ladies” by Cokie Roberts
  • “Your Crown Shines: for Ketanji Brown Jackson and You”, by Jessica Care Moore
  • “Girls to the Front: 40 Asian American Women Who Blazed a Trail”, by Niña Mata
  • “The Six Triple Eight: a True Story of the Black Woman Battalion of World War II”, by Tonya Abari
  • “Teaching for Change: How Septima Clark Led the Civil Rights Movement to Voting Justice”, by Yvonne Clark-Rhines, Monica Clark-Robinson
  • ‘Dress Like a Girl” by Patricia Toht
  • “Mama in Congress: Rashida Tlaib’s Journey to Washington”, by Rashida Tlaib, Miranda Paul, and Adam Tlaib
  • “Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom Now!”, by Claudette Colvin
  • “No Truth Without Ruth: The Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg”, by Kathleen Krull
  • “How Women Won the Vote”, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Ages 9-12

  • “Hidden Figures Young Readers’ Edition”, by Margot Lee Shetterly
  • “Eleanor Roosevelt”, by Russell Freedman
  • “Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women”, by Catherine Thimmesh
  • “Girls Solve Everything: Stories of Women Entrepreneurs Building a Better World”, by Catherine Thimmesh
  • “I Got This: To Gold and Beyond”, by Laurie Hernandez
  • “Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World”, by Susan Hood

Ages 13-15

  • “The Race to Be Myself”, by Caster Semenya
  • “The Mysterious Virginia Hall”, by Claudia Friddell
  • “Ruth Asawa”, by Sam Nakahira
  • “Beyond the Board”, by Maya Gabeira
  • “Coming Home, adapted for young adults”, by Brittney Griner
  • “Footeprint”, by Lindsay H. Metcalf
  • “The Bodyguard Unit”, by Clement Xavier
  • “Female, Gifted and Black”, by Michele-Jessica Fievre
  • “Rolling Warrior”, by Judith E. Heumann
  • “Because I Was A Girl”, by Melissa de la Cruz
  • “The Lady and the Octopus”, by Danna Staaf
  • “The Six”, by Loren Grush
  • “The Enigma Girls”, by Candace Fleming
  • “The Swans of Harlem”, by Karen Valby