BULLETIN BOARDS & DISPLAY : March is Women's History Month

     Did you know March is Women's History Month? Well, it is. So give it up for the lay-deees!
     I'd had a hard time finding a visually pleasing poster for it, so I was happy to obtain the one above from the "Diversity Store," HERE.

     The World War II woman above is from a free set of historical encyclopedia posters I picked up at some library conference. I cut the commercial stuff off and then my library volunteer aunt created that lovely lady-border around it using flowery stationery. Clever, yes?

     We used the nicest pictures from an old calendar of "Women Reading." "The Reading Woman?" Something like that. Then we added appropriate books to the display. Alcott's Little Women, A Break With Charity (Salem Witch Trials) by Ann Rinaldi, Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo, and Beyond the Burning Time by Kathryn Lasky.
     Women's History ain't always pretty, you guys. Shit happens.

     And here's the image I use for a bibliographic bookmark I call "Sugar & Spikes," which features edgier books for edgy girls.

Here's the list of books, all of which are available in our school library:

FICTION

The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy & Goth Girl by Barry Lyga

Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Watcha Gonna Do? by Cynthia Voigt

Blister by Susan Shreve

Blue Is For Nightmares by Laurie Faria Stolarz

Born Blue by Han Nolan

Boy Proof by Cecil Castellucci

Changeling by Yasmine Galenorn

Cut by Patricia McCormick

Dark Secrets: Legacy of Lies by Elizabeth Chandler

Define “Normal” by Julie Anne Peters

The Diviners by Libba Bray

Generation Dead by Daniel Waters

Ghostgirl by Tonya Hurley

Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn

Glass Houses by Rachel Caine

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

Goat Girls by Francesca Lia Block

Green Angel by Alice Hoffman

Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger

Haters by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have To Kill You by Ally Carter

I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone by Stephanie Kuehnert

Lucy the Giant by Sherri L. Smith

Midnight Predator by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

Poison by Chris Wooding

Stoner & Spaz by Ron Koertge

Stop Pretending by Sonya Sones

Sunshine by Robin McKinley

This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales

Threshold by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Tithe: a Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black

NON-FICTION

33 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women’s History… edited by Tonya Bolden
Girls: a History of Growing Up Female In America by Penny Colman

Gutsy Girls: Young Women Who Dare by Tina Schwager
Patently Female: Stories of Women Inventors and Their Breakthrough Ideas by Vare and Ptacek
Picture the Girl: Young Women Speak Their Minds by Audrey Shehyn

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     There's also this, which we put on the smaller bulletin board behind the counter--

     Years ago the Librarian and I made these "framed" pics of famous women, just by printing nice pictures out in black & white, and putting a backing frame of black construction paper, then creating labels that say who the women are, and what they're famous for. So we have Jane Goodall, Rosa Parks, and Abigail Adams. It's probably time I added some more ladies to this little gallery.