{"id":1842,"date":"2025-03-17T05:56:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T12:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2025-03-16T15:57:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T22:57:29","slug":"girls-to-the-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/girls-to-the-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls to the Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/girlstothefrontfc-960x1146.jpg?resize=525%2C627&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"627\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-23152\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Girls to the Front: 40 Asian American Women Who Blazed a Trail<\/em><br \/>\nby Ni\u00f1a Mata (Author \/ Illustrator)<br \/>\n<em>@ <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3FJDlW5\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9780063216280\">Bookshop<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Learn about forty amazing Asian American women who have changed the course of history in this middle grade book. Readers will meet: Mary Tape \u00b7 Umpeylia \u201cSugar Pie\u201d DeSanto \u00b7 Susan Ahn Cuddy \u00b7 Sunisa \u201cSuni\u201d Lee \u00b7 Zarina Hashmi \u00b7 Cristeta Comerford \u00b7 Anna May Wong \u00b7 Grace Lee Boggs \u00b7 Christine Ha \u00b7 Kimora Lee Simmons \u00b7 Vicki Manalo Draves \u00b7 Amy Tan \u00b7 Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu \u00b7 Tammy Duckworth \u00b7 Lucy Liu \u00b7 Gyo Fujikawa \u00b7 Kalpana Chawla \u00b7 Helen Zia \u00b7 Ny Sou Okon \u00b7 Vera Wang \u00b7 Geena Rocero \u00b7 Patsy Mink \u00b7 Gabriella Wilson (H.E.R.) \u00b7 Dr. Erika Lee \u00b7 Chloe Kim \u00b7 Margaret Cho \u00b7 Maya Lin \u00b7 Yuri Kochiyama \u00b7 Kristi Yamaguchi \u00b7 Tye Leung Schulze \u00b7 Ali Wong \u00b7 Dr. Kazue Togasaki \u00b7 Merritt Moore \u00b7 Nicole Ponseca \u00b7 Miyoshi Umeki \u00b7 Joy Cho \u00b7 Dorothy Toy \u00b7 Ruby Ibarra \u00b7 Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee \u00b7 Kamala Harris  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/girlstothefrontint.jpg?resize=525%2C631&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"631\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23153\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nonfiction.monday.jpg?resize=158%2C111\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" width=\"158\" height=\"111\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s Nonfiction Monday!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved. <em>(*bookstore affiliate<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girls to the Front: 40 Asian American Women Who Blazed a Trail by Ni\u00f1a Mata (Author \/ Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop Booktalk: Learn about forty amazing Asian American women who have changed the course of history in this middle grade book. Readers will meet: Mary Tape \u00b7 Umpeylia \u201cSugar Pie\u201d DeSanto \u00b7 Susan Ahn &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/girls-to-the-front\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Girls to the Front&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction-monday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pam6qm-tI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":114,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/alabama-spitfire-kidlit-bio-of-harper-lee\/","url_meta":{"origin":1842,"position":0},"title":"Alabama Spitfire:  #kidlit Bio of Harper Lee","author":"@roberta3","date":"October 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"With To Kill a Mockingbird recently winning the Great American Read contest, it's a perfect time to find out more about author Harper Lee with the picture book biography Alabama Spitfire: The Story of Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird by Bethany Hegedus and illustrated by Erin McGuire. 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