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- Good Wives, Image and Reality in the Lives
of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750, Laurel Thatcher
Ulrich, (1982).
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- Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary
Experience of American Women, 1775-1783, Mary Beth Norton
(1980).
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- Women of the Republic: Intellect and
Ideology in Revolutionary America, Linda Kerber, (1980).
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- Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives
in the Industrial Revolution, Thomas Dublin, (1994).
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- Elizabeth Leonard, All the
Daring of the Solider: Women of the Civil War Armies
(1999).
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- Jacqueline Jones, Labor of
Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work , and the Family
Since Slavery (1985).
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- Drew Gilpin Faust, Mothers of
Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in American Civil
War (1996).
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Adler, David.
A Picture Book of Eleanor Roosevelt. Holiday House, 1991.
A
brief account of the life and accomplishments of Eleanor
Roosevelt. Rd Lvl: 5.2
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- Brewster,
Hugh. Anastasia's Album. Scholastic Inc., 1997.
Photographs and
excerpts from personal letters tell the story of Anastasia,
daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, who is believed to have been
executed along with the rest of her family during the Russian
revolution in 1918.
Rd Lvl: 5.9
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- Cooney,
Barbara. Eleanor. Viking, 1996.
Presents the
life of Eleanor Roosevelt, who married a president of the United
States and became a great humanitarian.
Rd Lvl: 4.2
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- Greenfield,
Eloise. Mary McLeod Bethune. Harper Collins, 1997.
Biography of
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune who made numerous contributions to
education for African-Americans.
Rd Lvl: 3.5
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- Jerome, Kate
Boehm. Who Was Amelia Earhart? Grosset & Dunlap, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 106). Examines the
life of Amelia Earhart, a pioneer female aviator who
mysteriously disappeared during an around-the-world flight in
1937.
Rd Lvl: 5.8
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- Parlin,
John. Amelia Earhart, Pioneer of the Sky. Bantam Double
Dell Books for Young Readers, 1991.
Describes the
life of one of the first women air pilots, including her flight
records, her trip across the Atlantic Ocean, and her
disappearance during her last trip.
Rd Lvl: 3.9
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- Quakenbush,
Robert. Clear the cow pasture,
I'm coming in for a landing! : a story of Amelia Earhart .
Simon
& Schuster, 1990.
A biography of the courageous aviatrix who became the first
woman to cross the Atlantic by air.
Rd Lvl: 4.9
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- Turner,
Robyn Montana. Georgia O'Keefe. Little Brown & Company,
1977.
A biography of
the prominent American artist renowned for her images of
gigantic flowers, cityscapes, and distinctive desert scenes.
Rd Lvl: 5.9
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- Moore, Robin.
(1998) My Life With the Indians: The Story of Mary Jemison.
Silver Burdett.
Rd Lvl: 7.4
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- Turner, Ann.
(1987) Nettie's Trip South. Simon & Schuster Children's
Publishing.
A ten-year-old
northern girl encounters the ugly realities of slavery when she
visits Richmond, Virginia, and sees a slave auction.
Rd Lvl: 3.0
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- Gauch,
Patricia Lee. (2003) Thunder at Gettysburg. Boyds Mills
Press.
Fourteen-year-old Tillie is sent to accompany a neighbor to
Weikert's farm when the fighting at Gettysburg gets too close to
home, and instead finds herself trapped in the battle that raged
for three days, from July 1-3, 1863.
Rd Lvl: 5.7
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- Reiss,
Johanna. (1990) The Upstairs Room. Harper Trophy.
A Dutch Jewish girl describes the two-and-one-half years she
spent in hiding in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer's house
during World War II.
Rd Lvl: 5.9
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- Gold, Alison.
(1999) Memories of Anne
Frank : reflections of a childhood friend.
Scholastic.
Recounts the
story of Hannah Goslar, a close friend of Anne Frank and one of
the last to see her alive.
Rd Lvl: 5.5
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- Oppenheim,
Shulamith Levey. (1995). The Lily Cupboard. Harper
Trophy.
Miriam, a young Jewish girl, is forced to leave her parents
and hide with strangers in the country during the German
occupation of Holland.
Rd Lvl: 6.2
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- Uchida,
Yoshiko. (1996). The Bracelet.
Philomel Books.
Emi, a
Japanese-American in the second grade, is sent with her family
to an internment camp during World War II, but the loss of the
bracelet her best friend has given her proves that she does not
need a physical reminder of that friendship.
Rd Lvl: 4.3
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Faith Ringgold. (1996)
Tar Beach. Bantam Doubleday Dell
Books for Young Readers. RL3.4
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McKissack, Patricia, C., Goin’
Someplace Special, Athenum Books for Young Readers:
2001 "Tricia Ann excitedly gets her grandmother's
permission to go out by herself to 'Someplace Special' --a place
far enough away to take the bus and to have to walk a bit. But
this isn't just any trip. Tricia's trip takes place in the
segregated South of the 1950s. That means Tricia faces sitting
at the back of the bus, not being allowed to sit on a
whites-only park bench, and being escorted out of a hotel lobby.
She almost gives up, but a local woman...shows her how to listen
to the voice inside herself that allows her to go on. She
arrives at her special destination--the public library, whose
sign reads "All Are Welcome." RL 4.3
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Coles,
Robert, The Story of Ruby Bridges, Scholastic: 1995.
Feldman, Eve B., They Fought for Freedom: Children in the
Civil Right Movement, McGraw
Hill School Division.
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Hearne, Betsy, Seven Brave Women,
Greenwillow Books: 1997. A young girl recounts the
brave exploits of her female ancestors, including her
great-great-great grandmother who came to America in a wooden
sailboat. Recommended Gr 1-3
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Waters, Kate, Sarah Morton’s Day,
Scholastic: 1989. Text and photographs of Plymouth
Plantation follow a Pilgrim girl through a typical day as she
milks the goats, cooks and serves meals, learns her letters, and
adjusts to her new stepfather. RL3.4
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Hopkinson, Deborah, A Band of
Angels, Athenum Books for Young Readers: 1999 The
daughter of a slave forms a gospel singing group and goes on
tour to raise money to save Fisk University. RL 4.4
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Hopkinson, Deborah, Sweet Clara and
the Freedom Quilt, Alfred A. Knopf: 1993 A young
slave stitches a quilt with a map pattern which guides her to
freedom in the North. RL 3.8
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Hopkinson, Deborah, Under the Quilt
of Night, Athenum Books for Young Readers: 2001 A
young girl flees from the farm where she has been worked as a
slave and uses the Underground Railroad to escape to freedom in
the north. RL 3
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McLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall,
Scholastic: 1985 When their father invites a
mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home,
Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that
she will stay. RL 3.4
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Oneal, Zibby, A Long Way to Go: A
Story of Women’s Right to Vote (Once Upon America), Puffin:
1990 An eight-year-old girl deals with the women's
suffrage movement that rages during World War I. RL 3.7
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Stevens, Carla, Lily and Miss
Liberty, Scholastic, Inc.: 1992 A little girl makes
crowns and sells them to help raise money for the pedestal
needed for mounting France's gift of the Statue of Liberty to
this country. RL 3.6
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Amelia Earhart: Adventure in the Sky,
Francene Sabin (National Geographic Society, 2000).
A
biography of an aviation pioneer, emphasizing her childhood.
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Girls: A History of Growing Up Female in America,
Penny Colman (Scholastic Inc., 2000).
Traces the history of growing up female in America as told by
the girls themselves in journals, household manuals, letters,
slave narratives, and other primary sources. RL7.4
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Mary Geddy's Day: A Colonial Girl in Williamsburg,
Kate Waters (Scholastic Inc., 2002).
A
fictionalized account of one day in the life of a colonial girl
in Colonial Williamsburg on the day that the colony of Virginia
cast its vote for independence from Great Britain. RL3.7
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Famous African-American Women, Janet Baine Kopito.
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Meet Addy: An American Girls Collection,
Connie Kose (Pleasant Company Publications, 1993).
Nine-year-old Addy Walker escapes from a cruel life of slavery
to freedom during the Civil War. RL4
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The Pirate Queen,
Emily Arnold McCully (The Putnam Publishing Group, 1995).
Tells
the story of Grace O'Malley, the Irish pirate queen, based on
both historical fact and colorful legend.
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Remember the Ladies: 100 Great
American Women, Cheryl
Harness (Harper Collins Publishers, 2003). A
chronologically arranged collection of profiles of 100 notable
American women, ranging from Virginia Dare to Oprah Winfrey.
RL7.2
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Rosa Parks: From the Back of the Bus to the Front of a Movement,
Camilla Wilson (Scholastic Inc., 2001).
A
biography of the woman whose actions led to the desegregation of
buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1960s and who was an
important figure in the early days of the civil rights
movement. RL4
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Sybil Ludington's Midnight Ride,
Marsha Amstel (Lerner Publishing Group, 2000).
The
story of Sybil Ludington's ride on horseback to rouse American
soldiers to fight against the British who were attacking
Danbury, Connecticut during the American Revolution. RL3.7
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When Jessie Came Across the Sea,
Amy Hest (Candlewick Press, 1997).
A
thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her
grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she works for
three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother
to the United States, too. RL3.2
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When Marian Sang,
Pam Munoz Ryan (Scholastic Inc., 2002).
An
introduction to the life of Marian Anderson, extraordinary
singer and civil rights activist, who was the first African
American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera, whose life and
career encouraged social change. RL5.2
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Young Rosa Parks: Civil Rights Heroine,
Anne Benjamin (Troll Communications L.L.C., 1996).
Tells
the story of young Rosa Parks, an African-American whose refusal
to give up her seat on the bus to a white person in Alabama in
1955 marked the beginning of the end of segregation. RL3.8
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