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Mara Rockliff is the author of many lively historical books for children, including Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery that Baffled All of France, winner of the Cook Prize and an Orbis Pictus Honor book. Her newest titles are Billie Jean! How Tennis Star Billie Jean King Changed Women's Sports and Doctor Esperanto and the Language of Hope. Other recent books include Around America to Win the Vote; Anything but Ordinary Addie: The True Story of Adelaide Herrmann, Queen of Magic; and Gingerbread for Liberty! (an ALA Notable Children's Book and winner of the Garden State Children's Book Award and Land of Enchantment Book Award). Under the pen name Lewis B. Montgomery, she wrote all twelve books in the popular Milo & Jazz Mysteries chapter book series. Rockliff lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with her family. Visit her online at mararockliff.com.
How Lena 'Lane' Bryant Changed the Shape of Fashion
2022
The True Story of Adelaide Herrmann, Queen of Magic
2016
Two Suffragists, a Kitten, and 10,000 Miles
2016
How Tennis Star Billie Jean King Changed Women's Sports
2019
Lil Hardin Armstrong's Life in Jazz
2018
2014
2019
What Kind of World are YOU Buying?
2010
How a German Baker Helped Win the American Revolution
2015
2020
The Thrilling True Adventures of the First Woman Filmmaker
2018
2012
How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery that Baffled All of France
2014
2012
2004
2005
The Revolutionary Art of Sister Corita Kent
2024
Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
2022
2009
2012
Beatrice Shilling, World War II Engineer
2021
2014
How Frieda Caplan Changed the Way We Eat
2021
