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(0)Penny Colman
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the history and activities of the American holiday of Thanksgiving Day. Examines numerous competing claims for the first Thanksgiving, including the traditional story of the feast shared by the Pilgrims and Native Americans in 1621 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Paints a fascinating picture of the holiday and its changing meanings throughout American history.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
A biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary of labor, who became the first woman cabinet member and a pioneer in labor reform, establishing unemployment insurance, minimum wages, maximum hours, safety regulations, and social security.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A dual biography of the lives of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and the friendship that they formed. Together they challenged entrenched beliefs, customs, and laws that oppressed women and spearheaded the fight to gain legal rights, including the right to vote, despite fierce opposition, daunting conditions, scandalous entanglements, and betrayal by their friends and allies.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
During World War II, 127 women managed to get "where the action was" by obtaining official accreditation from the U.S. War Department as war correspondents, a profession previously reserved for men.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Adventures of eight inspiring women of the twentieth century. Mary Gibson Henry risked her life following her passion for new botanical species. During the Civil War, Katharine Wormeley worked aboard hospital ships and helped to save the lives of many sick and wounded soldiers. With a promise and a dollar and a half, Mary McLeod Bethune opened a school for African American girls in Daytona Beach, Florida, in 1904, at a time when schools were segregated....