Profiles the life and career of the popular talk show host who rose from a childhood of poverty to become one of the most visible women in the nation.

Aly Raisman first stepped onto a gymnastics mat as a toddler in a "mommy & me" gymnastics class. No one could have predicted then that sixteen years later, she'd be standing on an Olympic podium, having achieved her dreams. But it wasn't an easy road to success. Aly faced obstacle after obstacle, including naysayers who claimed that she didn't have the talent to compete at an elite level and classmates who shamed Aly for her athletic body. Through...

"Readers will learn about W. K. Kellogg, and the creation of cornflakes"--Provided by publisher.

A photobiography of the first wife of a president to have a public life and career of her own.

A biography of the ninteenth-century woman who escaped slavery and helped many other slaves get to freedom on the Underground Railroad.

Fueled by her passion for the game and buoyed by the inspiration of Jackie Robinson, Mamie Johnson is determined to be a professional baseball picture. From the time she insists on trying out for the all-male all-white Police Athletic League team until she becomes one of only three women to play in the Negro Leagues, Mamie Johnson's life shows that courage and a firece curveball can make a childhood dream come true.