Lost Heroines is about all the important women in history who historians have forgotten about. It tells the story of Julie Krone, the first woman jockey to win the Kentucky Derby and the obstacles she overcame because of her gender. You'll read about Nettie Stevens, a brilliant geneticist who discovered the x and the y chromosomes and developed the "accessory chromosome" theory.

This book can be used to research reports for History for students in Middle School or High School. It has references to other books for further studies. It gives girls good role models and shows boys that women can achieve as much or more than men and demonstrates that women have made valuable contributions to the world. The format is different from other History books because each chapter tells an individual story instead of a chronological history that progresses throughout the book. It is very well-researched and documents its sources.

Lost Heroines teaches you that women have excelled as much as men throughout history starting from 1125 BC to the present but they have been ignored by many history books. The book tries to correct that injustice. However it includes women such as Arsinoe, Lady Godiva and Queen Liliuokalani who are already covered in some school history books. Some of the women are rather eccentric and the contribution they made was, in a way, an accident, such as Peggy Guggenheim who had no schooling and was a self-absorbed woman who started a contemporary art gallery in New York for social reasons more than intellectual reasons. However Cornelia, who lived in 190 BC, made every effort and succeeded at becoming one of the world's greatest mothers by guiding her sons into the Roman Senate where they became the reformers of Rome.

Other kids should read this book because of the new insights it gives into women.

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