To Fly Among the Stars: The Hidden Story of the Fight for Women Astronauts (Scholastic Focus) (Siegel Rebecca)(Pevná vazba)

To Fly Among the Stars: The Hidden Story of the Fight for Women Astronauts (Scholastic Focus) (Siegel Rebecca)(Pevná vazba)

A searing look at the birth of America's space program, and the men and women aviators who set its course.In the 1960s, locked in a heated race to launch the first human into space, the United States selected seven superstar test pilots and former military air fighters to NASA's astronaut class --

Violeta among the Stars (Cardoso Dulce Maria)(Pevná vazba)

A beautiful, blistering life story told amid the wreckage of a car

Melowy: Time to Fly (Powell Cortney Faye)(Pevná vazba)

The stars of the new best-selling series of chapter books from Scholastic are five flying unicorns known as Melowies. Together they attend a very special magical school known as Destiny, where they each learn to control their very own special power. But right now the high-flying Aerobatics

Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier (Ottaviani Jim)(Pevná vazba)

In the graphic novel Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier, Jim Ottaviani and illustrator Maris Wicks capture the great humor and incredible drive of Mary Cleave, Valentina Tereshkova, and the first women in space.The U.S. may have put the first man on the moon, but it was the Soviet space

Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story (Collins Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Based on the adult bestseller Carrying the FireIn time for the 50th anniversary of man's first landing on the moon, this re-release of Michael Collins's autobiography is a bold, sparkling testament to exploration and perseverance. In this captivating account, space traveler Collins recalls his

Astronaut's Cat (Riddle Tohby)(Pevná vazba)

A delightful story that celebrates the wonders of the Moon, the curiosity of cats and the precious beauty of

Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights (Scholastic Focus) (Goldstone Lawrence)(Pevná vazba)

A thrilling and incisive examination of the post-Reconstruction era struggle for and suppression of African American voting rights in the United States.Following the Civil War, the Reconstruction era raised a new question to those in power in the US: Should African Americans, so many of them former

A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance (Dadzie Stella Abasa)(Pevná vazba)

The story of the enslaved West Indian women in the struggle for freedom The forgotten history of women slaves and their struggle for liberation. Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories for posterity. In this riveting work of historical reclamation, Stella Dadzie

Midnight in Cairo - The Female Stars of Egypt's Roaring `20s (Cormack Raphael)(Pevná vazba)

The fascinating story of the women of Cairo's decadent interwar nightlife and entertainment industry, which celebrates these feminist cultural icons' triumphs, presenting a unique view of the rise of Arab

Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice (Stevenson Bryan)(Pevná vazba)

Usborne Book of the Moon (Cowan Laura)(Pevná vazba)

Welcome to the story of our Moon - a story of Moon dust and Moon rabbits, cheese and astronauts, deep thoughts and bold plans. Read, dream and wonder as you discover ancient legends about the Moon's creation, meet the very first astronomers and learn about the Space Race. Published to celebrate the

The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women in Space - Loren Grush

The remarkable true story of America's first women astronauts - six extraordinary women, each making history going to orbit aboard NASA's Space Shuttle. When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots - a

Pride - The Story of the LGBTQ Equality Movement (Todd Matthew)(Pevná vazba)

Documents the milestones in the fight for equality between genders and sexualities, from the victories of early activists, to the gradual acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community in society and the passing of legislation barring

12: The Inside Story of Tom Brady's Fight for Redemption (Sherman Casey)(Pevná vazba)

The thrilling behind-the-scenes account of how the most sensational scandal in NFL history culminated in the greatest comeback in sports history, featuring dozens of exclusive interviews with Patriots players--including Tom Brady himself. In January 2015, rumors circulated that the New England

Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am (Cooke Julia)(Pevná vazba)

Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men-era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and wanted up Required to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess

Women Fight, Women Write: Texts on the Algerian War (Mortimer Mildred)(Paperback)

Today, the 'fight to write'--the struggle to become the legitimate chronicler of one's own story--is being waged and won by women across mediums and borders. But such battles of authorship extend well beyond a single cultural moment. In her gripping study of unsung female narratives of the Algerian

Handmaid's Tale (Atwood Margaret)(Pevná vazba)

One of the New Windmills series for schools, this is the story of Offred, one of the few women in the Republic of Gilead left with functioning ovaries, whose only function it is to breed. If she deviates, she will be hanged as a dissenter. But Offred is determined to find a way

Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Shnayerson Michael)(Pevná vazba)

The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip 'Fast-paced and absorbing. . . . With a keen eye for the amusing, and humanizing detail, Shnayerson] enlivens the traditional rise-and-fall narrative.'--Jenna Weissman Joselit,

Secrets in the Skies - Galileo and the Astonishing Solar System (Sparrow Giles)(Pevná vazba)

An illuminating exploration into the story of Galileo's fight for truth, and the birth of modern science, beautifully retold in this sumptuous gift

Badly Behaved Women: The Story of Modern Feminism (Crowhurst Anna-Marie)(Pevná vazba)

Badly Behaved Women is the illustrated story of the past 100 years of the women's movement, from suffrage, alleged bra burning and the politics of hair to Beyonc , body positivity and #MeToo. In the early twentieth century, through ceaseless dedication and fearless campaigning, the women's

The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive (Adlington Lucy)(Pevná vazba)

Dancing for Stalin - A Dancer's Story of Courage and Survival in Soviet Russia (Ezrahi Christina)(Pevná vazba)

The true story of one couple's fight for survival in Stalin's Russia: a famous ballerina, sent to the Gulag, and her husband, who found a way to save her against all

Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler's Hidden Soldiers in America (Cenziper Debbie)(Pevná vazba)

The gripping story of a team of Nazi hunters at the U.S. Department of Justice as they raced against time to expose members of a brutal SS killing force who disappeared in America after World War Two. In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling

Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race (Shetterly Margot Lee)(Pevná vazba)

Based on the New York Times bestselling book and the Academy Award-nominated movie, author Margot Lee Shetterly and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award winner Laura Freeman bring the incredibly inspiring true story of four black women who helped NASA launch men into space to picture book