31 Days, 31 Lists: Day Twenty-Six – 2017 Unique Biographies

In January of 2018 the cover story of SLJ will be one I penned summarizing the current crop of biographies for kids and teens of famous women and how this listing has changed over decades. In the past it was all Helen Keller, Amelia Earhart, and Rosa Parks as far as the eye could see. Who rates as the current top biography subjects these days? The results may (or may not) surprise you. Today, I’d like to honor the biographies of folks that don’t end up in a lot of history books and might not...