ANNA M. LEWIS is an award-winning toy inventor and creativity advocate. She is the author of City Doodles: Chicago and has contributed to Appleseeds, Odyssey, and Toy Design Monthly. She teaches classes on cartooning, game design, arts and crafts, monster making, and painting through her company, Ideasplash. She lives in St. Charles, Illinois.

WOMEN OF ACTION

Women of Action is a lively, accessible biography series that introduces young adults to women and girls of courage and conviction throughout the ages.

Jacket design: Sarah Olson

Front cover photos: (top) Denise Scott Brown

(VSBA); (bottom, from left to right) house by Anna

Wagner Keichline (courtesy of Nancy Jane Perkins,

FIDSA ); building by Zaha Hadid (©2012 by Iwan

Baan); Brooklyn Bridge (Library of Congress

LC -D4-12702); a San Diego park by Martha

Schwartz (Martha Schwartz Partners)

Printed in the United States of America