Piper Reed the Great Gypsy by Kimberly Willis Holt

Piper Reed, the nine-year-old daughter of a Navy Chief, keeps herself and her family very busy while her father is away on sea duty . New neighbors, Chrismas at a beach house shaped like a space ship, and school fill the days on her calendar. But most importantly, she is planning for the Gypsy Club pet show, set to take place after her father’s return. Piper is determined to teach her dog Bruna such spectacular tricks that she is will win the contest, but Bruna doesn’t want to cooperate. How can Piper solve this problem?

Ballots for Belva by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen

Belva Lockwood felt so strongly that women should be allowed to vote, that she ran for President of the United States in order to change that law! And even though American women could not vote for her, she was so persuasive she received a significant number of votes from men who agreed that she should become President.

This fascinating biography is a concise, but well-documented story of an early pioneer in the fight for women's rights in the United States. Just in time for another history-making election, it also includes a helpful timeline of the women's suffrage movement in the United States and a bibliography of other sources about this important, but little-known trailblazer.