Selected Archival Collections Related to Kentucky Women

ELEMENTARY LEVEL

Altman, Linda Jacobs and Enriguq O. Saachez. Amelia's Road.
Appelt, Kathi. Bayou Lullaby.
Asch, Frank. Moondance.
Atkins, Jeannie. Aani and the Tree Huggers.
Auch, Mary Jane. Peeping Beauty.
Bennett, Lee. Extra Innings: Baseball Poems.
Berger, Gilda. Magic Slippers.
Blumberg, Rhonda. Bloomers.
Blume, Judy. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.
Bolen, Tonya. 33 Things Every Girl Should Know. New York: Random House.
Bowen, Betsy. Tracks in the Wild.
Bradby, Marie. More Than Anything Else.
Bridges, Ruby. Through My Eyes.
Bunling, Eve. Dreaming of America.
Bussell, Darcey. The Young Dancers.
Byars, Betsy. The Golly Sisters Go West.
Charbonnet, Gabrielle. Tutu Much Ballet.
Cleary, Beverly. Ramona the Pest.
Coerr, Eleanor. Josefina Story Quilt.
Cooney, Barbara. Eleanor.
Dahl, Roald. The BFG.
Daly, Niki. Papa Lucky's Shadow.
DePaolo, Tomi. Oliver Button is a Sissy.
Dominy, Jeannie. Katherine Durham.
Fenner, Carol. Yolanda's Genius.
Fleischman, Sid. The Whipping Boy.
Fritz, Jean. You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?
Galan, Mark. There's Still Time: Success of Endangered Species Act.
Giff, Patricia Reilly. Rosie's Nutcracker Dreams.
George, Jean Craighead. Case of the Missing Cutthroats: An Ecological Mystery.
_____. Talking Earth.
George, Linsday. Around the Pond: Who's Been Here?
Hall, Kirsten. Ballerina Girl.
Hamilton, Virginia. Her Stories.
Hampershire, Susan. Rosie's Ballet Slippers.
Hays, Wilma Pitchford. Little Yellow Fur.
Hazell, Rebecca. Heroines--Great Women Through the Ages.
Hepworth, Catherine. Antics.
Hobbs, Will. Downriver.
_____. Kokopelli's Flute.
Hoffman, E.T.A. Nutcracker.
Hoffman, Mary. Amazing Grace.
_____. Three Wise Women.
Holme, Anita. I Can Save the Earth.
Hooper, Meredith. The Drop in My Drink.
Hopkinson, Deborah. Sweet Clara & The Freedom Quilt.
Houston, Gloria. My Great Aunt Arizona.
Hughes, Langston. Sweet and Sour Animals.
Irvine, Joan. How To Make Holiday Pop-Ups.
Isaacs, Anne. Swamp Angel.
Isadora, Rachel. Lili at Ballet.
Johnson, Paul Brett. The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down.
_____. Insects Are My Life.
Kellogg, Steven. Sally Ann Thunder and Whirlwind Crockett.
Kendall, Russ. Russian Girl: Life in an Old Russian Town.
Klass, David. California Blue.
Krull, Kathleen. Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman.
Leaf, Munro. The Story of Ferninand.
Levine, Gail. Ella Enchanted.
Levinson, Nancy. Clara and the Bookwagon.
Lewis, Barbara. What Do You Stand For?: A Kid's Guide to Building Character.
_____. A Kid's Guide to Social Action.
Lobel, Arnold. Mouse Soup.
_____. Mouse Tales.
Lowery, Linda. Wilma Mankiller.
Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars.
_____. See You Around, Sam!
Lyon, George Ella. Borrowed Children.
_____. Come A Tide.
_____. Five Live Bongos.
_____. Mama is a Miner.
_____. Who Came Down That Road.
MacDonald, Maryann. Hedgehog Bakes a Cake.
Markle, Sandra. Creepy, Crawly Baby Bugs.
McCully, Emily Arnold. The Ballot Box Battle.
Milord, Susan. Kid's Nature Book: 365 Indoor/Outdoor Activities & Experiences.
Minarik, Else. Little Bear.
Montgomery, L.M. Anne of Green Gables.
Moore, Julia. While You Sleep.
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Shiloh.
Needham, Bobbie. Ecology Crafts.
Nelson, Ester. Dancing Games for Children of All Ages.
O'Brien, Robert. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh.
O'Dell, Scott. Island of the Blue Dolphin.
Palmer, Helen Marion. A Fish Out of Water.
Parks, Rosa and Jim Haskins. I Am Rosa Parks.
Parish, Peggy. Granny and the Desperadoes.
Paterson, Katherine. Sarah, Plain and Tall.
Paulsen, Gary. Woodsong.
Pfeffer, Wendy. A Log's Life.
Pilkey, Dav. A Friend for Dragon.
Pinkney, Andrea. Solo Girl.
Raskin, Ellen. The Westing Game.
Rockwell, Anne. Our Earth.
Roehm, Michelle. Girls Who Rocked the World 2: Heroines from Harriet Tubman to Mia Hamm.
Roop, Peter. Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie.
Rotner, Shelley. Nature Spy.
Ryan, Pam Munoz. Amelia and Eleanor Go For A Ride.
Ryder, Joanne. Jaguar in the Rain Forest.
Sadler, Marilyn. It's Not Easy Being a Bunny.
Seibold, J. otto and Vivian Walsh. Olive the Other Reindeer.
Selsam, Millicent. How to be a Nature Detective.
Seymour, Tres. Hunting The White Cow.
_____. I Love My Buzzard.
_____. The Smash-Up Crash-Up Derby.
Shelby, Anne. Homeplace.
_____. Potluck.
Souci, Robert San. Cut From Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend and Tall Tale.
Spier, Peter. People.
Stadler, John. Hooray For Snail.
Stanley, Diane. Joan of Arc.
_____. Roughing It on the Oregon Trail.
Stevenson, James. The Mud Flat Olympics.
Still, James. An Appalachian Mother Goose.
Strangis, Joel. Grandfather's Rock.
Tafuri, Nancy. What the Moon Sees/ What the Sun Sees.
Tallchief, Maria and Rosemary Wells. Tallchief: American's Prima Ballerina.
Tynia Thomassie. Mimi's Tutu.
Van Zandt, Eleanor. Dance.
Vaughan, Martha C. and United States Attorney's Office. What's My Job In Court?: A Coloring and Activity Book for Kids Going to Court.
Vaughn, Marcia. Abbie Against the Storm.
Weldon, Amelia. Girls Who Rocked the World: Heroines from Sacajawea to Sheryl Swoopes.
Wells, Rosemary. Streets of Gold.
_____. Mary on Horseback: Three Mountain Stories.
Wetterer, Margaret. Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express.
White, E.B. Charlotte's Web.
Williams, David. Grandma Essie's Covered Wagon.
Yep, Lawrence. Ribbons.
Ziefert, Harriet. A Car Trip For Mouse and Mole.
Zolotow, Charlotte. The Quiet Lady.

YOUNG ADULT

Adamson, Lynda. Notable Women in American History.
_____. Notable Women in World History.
Addy, Sharon Hart. Right Here on This Spot.
Anderson, Joan. Rookie: Tamika Whitmore's First Year in NBA.
Anholt, Laurence. Harry's Home.
_____. Stone Girl, Bone Girl: The Story of Mary Anning.
Archer, Jules. To Save the Earth: The American Environmental Movement.
Armstrong, Carole. Women of the Bible.
Ashby, Ruth and Deborah Gore Ohrn, eds. Her Story: Women Who Changed the World.
Baker, Jeannie. Where the Forest Meets the Sea.
Bang, Molly. Common Sense: Water, Air, Earth We Share.
Banks, Jacqueline. Egg-Drop Blues.
Batoletti, Susan Campbell. A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Annetka Kaminski.
Baylor, Byrd. The Best Town in the World.
Beals, Melba Patillo. Warriors Don't Cry: Memoir of Little Rock.
Beatty, Patricia. Behave Yourself, Bethany Braut.
Bell, Janet Cheatham. Stretch Your Wings: Famous Black Quotes for Teens.
Benowitz, June M. ed. Encyclopedia of American Women and Religion.
Bledsloe, Lucy Jane. The Big Bike Race.
Bernstein, Leonard, Alan Winkler and Linda Zierdt. Multicultural Women of Science: Three Centuries of Contributions With Hands-On Activities and Exercises for the School Year.
Brown, Roberta Simpson. The Walking Trees.
Bullard, Sara. Free at Last: History of Civil Rights Movement.
Caduto, Michael and Joseph Bruchar. Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories & Environmental Activities.
Cannon, Bettie. A Bellsong For Sarah Raines.
Carlson, Lori. Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems About Growing Up Bilingual.
Cherry, Lynne. A River Ran Wild.
Christopher, Matt. The Winning Stroke.
Coleman, Penny. Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II.
Collard, Lneed B. Acting for Nature: What Young People Around The World Have Done to Protect the Environment, and Action for Nature.
Compton, Joanne. Ashpet: Appalachian Tale.
Cooney, Barbara. Burning Up.
_____. Eleanor.
Crews, Nina. One Hot Summer Day.
Dalgliesh, Ouida. Words by Heart.
Davis, Jenny. Goodbye & Keep Cold.
_____. Sex Education.
Denenberg, Barry. The Journal of Ben Uchida, Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp.
_____. So Far From Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl.
_____. When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson.
Drill, Esther, Heather McDonald and Rebecca Odes. Deal With It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a Gurl.
Duffy, James. Radical Red.
Duncan, Alice Faye. National Civil Rights Museum Celebrates Everyday People.
_____. Willie Jerome.
Feelings, Tom. Middle Passage: White Ships, Black Cargo.
Forman, James. A Ballad For Hogskill Hill.
Fox, Paula. One-Eyed Cat.
Fradin, Dennis Brindell and Judith Bloom Fradin. Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.
Freedman, Russell. Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The Making of a Champion.
Garden, Nancy and Farrar Stravs Giroux. The Year They Burned the Books.
Garland, Sherry. A Line In The Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence.
Glass, Andrew. Charles T. McBride.
Goldman, Marlene and Maureen Hatch. Women and Health.
Gorrell, Gena K. North Star to Freedom: Story of Underground Railroad.
Gourse, Leslie. Billie Holiday: Tragedy & Triumph of Lady Day.
Greenfield, Eloise. On My Horse.
_____. Honey, I Love.
Gregory, Kristiana. The Great Railroad Race: The Diary of Libby West.
_____. The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart.
Grifalcon, Ann. Kinda Blue.
_____. Not Home.
Grove, Vicki. The Starplace.
Hansen, Joyce. I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl.
Harper, Judith, ed. Susan B. Anthony: A Biographical Companion.
Harvey, Brett. My Prairie Year: Based on the Diary of Elenore Plaisted.
Haskins, James. One More River to Cross.
Hesse, Karen. A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin.
Hewett, Joan. Laura Loves Horses.
Hewett, Lorri. Lives of Our Own.
Hillstrom, Laurie Collier and Kevin Hillstrom, ed. Contemporary Women Artists.
Hoobler, Dorothy. African American Family Album.
Hopkins, Lee Bennett. Spectacular Science: A Book of Poems.
Hughes, Dean. Backup Goalie.
Huntington, Lee. Maybe a Miracle.
Hurwitz, Johanna. The Rabbi's Girls.
Isaacs, Anne. Swamp Angel.
Jiang, Ji-li. Red Scarf Girl.
Jones, Hettie. Big Star Fallin' Mama; 5 Women in Black Music.
Kerr, M.E. What I Really Think of You.
Kisher, Trudy. Spite Fences.
Kronenwetter, Michael. America in the 60s.
Lasky, Katherine. Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, A Jewish ImmigrantGirl.
_____. A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple.
Lowe, Denise. Women and American Television: An Encyclopedia.
Lyon, George Ella. Borrowed Children.
_____. Here And Then.
Macdonald, Margaret Reed. Earth Day Stories.
MacLachlan, Patricia. All The Places to Love.
Macy, Sue. Winning Ways: A Photohistory of American Women.
Marino, Jan. The Day That Elvis Came to Tour.
_____. Searching for Atticus.
Marshall, Catherine. Julie.
Martin, Rafe. The Rough-Face.
McFarlane, Sheryl. Jessie's Island.
McKissack, Patricia. A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, A Slave Girl.
McKissack, Patricia and Frederick McKissack. Civil Rights Movement in America.
Medearis, Angela Shelf. Our People.
Meltzer, Milton. Ten Queens: Portraits of Women of Power.
Moore, Yvette. Freedom Songs.
Murphy, Claire Rudolf and Jane Haigh. Gold Rush Women.
Murphy, Jim. West to the Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardy.
Myers, Walter Dean. Now is Your Time!
Nelson, Vaunda. Beyond Mayfield.
New Moon. New Moon: Sports.
_____. New Moon Books: Money.
_____. Girls Know Best.
_____. Girls to the Rescue.
_____. Taking Charge of My Mind and Body.
_____. The Period Book: Everything You Don't Want to Ask, But Need to Know.
Normandin, Christine ed. LeLooska, Spirit of the Cedar People: More Stories and Paintings of Chief LeLooska.
Osborne, Mary Pope. Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catherine Carey Logan.
Oughton, Jerrie. Music From a Place Called Half Moon.
Parks, Rosa and Jim Haskins. Rosa Parks: My Story.
Pasternak, Ceel and Linda Thornburg. Cool Careers for Girls in Performing Arts.
Pasternak, Ceel. Cool Careers for Girls: Engineering.
Paterson, Katherine. Preacher's Boy.
Paulsen, Gary. The Teut.
Petry, Ann. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad.
_____. Tituba of Salem Village.
Phillip, Neil ed. It's a Woman's World: Century of Women's Voices in Poetry.
Pollock, Penny. The Turkey Girl: Zuni Cinderella Story.
Rand, Gloria. Fighting for the Forest.
Ray, Mary Lyn. Basket Moon.
Rinaldi, Ann. My Heart is on the Ground: The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl.
Ringgold, Faith. Tar Beach.
Rochman, Hazel. Holocaust Survivors, Rescuers, and Bystanders.
Russell, Ching Yeung. Child Bride.
_____. First Apple.
_____. Lichie Tree.
_____. Water Ghost.
San Souci, Robert D. Scotface: Ojibwa Cinderella Story.
Scaife, Ross. Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World.
Scanlon, Jennifer ed. Significant Contemporaary American Feminists.
Schlueter, Paul and June ed. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers.
Schulz, Jeffrey and Laura van Assendelt ed. Encyclopedia of Women in American Politics.
Schwager, Tina and Michele Schuerger. Gutsy Girls: Young Women Who Dare.
Seymour, Gene. Jazz.
Smead, Howard. The Afro- Americans.
Sobol, Donald. My Name is Amelia.
Speare, Elizabeth. The Witch of Blackbird Pond.
Sterling, Dorothy. Freedom Train.
Streitmatter, Janice. For Girls Only: Making a Case for Single-Sex Schooling.
Swanson, Susan Marie. Letter to the Lake.
Sweeney, Joan. Put Ying on the Map.
Tate, Eleanora E. The Secret of Gumbo Grove.
______. Thank You, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
_____. Don't Split the Pole.
Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
_____. The Friendship.
_____. The Gold Cadillac.
_____. The Road to Memphis.
Thomas, Velma Maia. Lest We Forget.
Tierney, Helen, ed. Women's Studies Encyclopedia.
Wallace-Brodeur, Ruth. Callie's Way.
Walter, Mildred P. Second Daughter: Story of a Slave Girl.
Welch, Roseanne. Encyclopedia of Women in Aviation and Space.
White, Ellen Emerson. Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady.
Wilkinson, Brenda. Not Separate, Not Equal.
Wong, Olive. From My Window.
Woodson, Jacqueline. The House You Pass On The Way.
Wright, Courtney. Journey to Freedom.
Wyman, Carolyn. Ella Fitzgerald: Jazz Singer Supreme.
Yolen, Jane. Letting Swift River Go.
Young, C. Coco De. A Letter To Mrs. Roosevelt.
Young, Serinity ed. Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion.
Zhang, Sorg Nan. A Little Tiger in the Chinese Night.
Zierdt-Warshaw, Linda. American Women in Technology: An Encyclopedia.
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Joan Dance
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Women in Business:

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Linda Boileau
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Pearl Carter Pace
Lt. Colonel Linda Smith

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Effie Waller Smith

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Lt. Anna Mac Clarke
Capt. Helen Horlacher Evans
Julia Ann Marcum

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Sarah Ogan Gunning
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Lily May Ledford
Reel World String Band
Jean Ritchie
Mary Wheeler

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Governor Martha Layne Collins
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Rep. Mary Elliott Flanery
Sen. Georgia Davis Powers
Lt. Gov. Thelma Stovall

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Madeline McDowell Breckinridge
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Eula Hall
Josephine Henry
Belinda Mason
Lois Morris
Eliza Caroline Calvert Obenchain
Charlotte Richardson
Joan Robinett
Mary Sue Whayne
Corinne Whitehead
Evelyn Williams

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Eldress Nancy Moore
Rabbi Gaylia Rooks

Women in Science:

Sarah Frances Price
Ellen Churchill Semple

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Terri Cecil-Ramsey
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Audrey Whitlock Peterson
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