Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World

"Well-behaved women seldom make history." —Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian

Fresh, accessible, and inspiring, Shaking Things Up introduces fourteen revolutionary young women…

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