News Release

01/24/2007
PPL’s Smith Hill Branch Receives $1,200 League of Women Voter’s Education Fund Grant

The Smith Hill Branch of Providence Public Library (PPL) has received a grant of $1,200 from the League of Women Voter’s Education Fund. The funds will be used to purchase more than 30 American women’s history biographies for children, as well as a selection of citizenship books and materials for adults.

According to Jennifer Romans, Smith Hill Children’s Specialist, the Branch will also be offering five children’s programs themed around American women over the course of the next several months. Joan Retsinas, of the League of Women Voter’s Fund, hopes this funding and programming will happen annually.

Women's History for Children

• America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle by David A. Adler
• Venus and Serena Williams (Women Who Win series) by Virginia Aronson and Hannah Storm
• With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote by Ann Bausum
• Georgia's Bones by Jen Bryant
• Petticoat Spies: Six Women Spies in the Civil War (Notable Americans series) by Peggy Caravantes
• A is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing Women by Lynne Cheney
• The Daring Nellie Bly: America's Star Reporter by Bonnie Christensen
• Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II by Penny Coleman
• Players in Pigtails by Shana Corey
• The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation by Amelia Earhart
• Our Eleanor: A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt's Remarkable Life by Candace Fleming
• The Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine by Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis Brindell
• Outrageous Women of Colonial America by Mary Rodd Furbee
• Hilary Rodham Clinton by Joann Brenn Guernsey
• Rabble Rousers: Twenty American Women Who Made a Difference by Cheryl Harness
• Bottle Houses: The Creative World of Grandma Frisbrey by Melissa Eskridge Haymaker
• Sandra Day O'Connor: Independent Thinker (Justices of the Supreme Court series) by D.J. Herda
• Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Workers Rights by Judith Pinkerton Josephson
• Ladies First: 40 Daring Women who Were Second to None by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
• A Woman for President: the Story of Victoria Woodhull by Kathleen Krull
• Elizabeth Blackwell (First Biographies series) by Jan Mader
• Condoleezza Rice by Corinne J. Naden and Rose Blue
• Count on Us: American Women in the Military by Amy Nathan
• A Year with Grandma Moses by W. Nikola-Lisa
• Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of Vocal Virtuosa by Andrea Davis Pickney
• Madam President: The Extrordinary, True, (and Evolving) Story of Women in Politics by Catherin Thimmesh
• Sally Ride: The Story of the First Amerian Female in Space (Unlocking the Secrets of Science series) by Linda R. Wade
• Betsy Ross by Alexandra Wallner
• I Could Do That!: Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote by Linda Arms White
• African American Women Writers (Black Stars series) by Brenda Wilkinson
• Bridget "Biddy" Mason: From Slave to Businesswoman by Jean Kinney Williams
• Sybil's Night Ride by Karen B. Winnick

Citizenship Materials to Purchase

• Citizenship: Success at Your Interview (dvd) by McDowell
• The Way to US Citizenship, Margaret W. Hirschy
• Citizenship, Ready for the Interview, New Readers Press
• Citizenship, Passing the Test, New Readers Press
• Citizenship Made Simple, Barbara Brooks Kimmel and Alam M Lubiner
• Preparation for Citizenship (Steck-Vaughn Publishing)
• Entry Into Citizenship, Aliza Becker
• Getting Your Citizenship, Susan Echaore-McDavid
• Voices of Freedom, Bill Bliss with Steven J Molinsky