You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?
10 best books like You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? (Jean Fritz): Eleanor, Quiet No More, Father's Arcane Daughter, A Lady Has the Floor: Belva Lockwood Speaks Out for Women's Rights, Tut's Mummy: Lost...And Found, Children of the River, A More Perfect Union: The Story of Our Constitution, Wagon Wheels, Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross, Christopher Columbus, George Washington and the General's Dog
| Author | Doreen Rappaport |
| ISBN | 0786851414 |
Eleanor Roosevelt was raised in a privileged but stern Victorian household, with an affectionate but mostly absent father and a critical mother who made fun of her daughter's looks. Alone and lonely for much of her childhood, Eleanor found solace in books and in the life of her lively and independent...
POOR LITTLE RICH BOY Winston Carmichael has it all: a big house, servants, vacations in Palm Beach and a fancy private school. But with over protective parents and a sense of responsibility for his younger sister, Heidi, Winston sometimes feels more as if he's living in a prison than a dream.
Then,...
A Lady Has the Floor: Belva Lockwood Speaks Out for Women's Rights
| Author | Kate Hannigan |
| ISBN | 1629794538 |
Unafraid to take to the floor and speak her mind, lawyer, activist, and presidential candidate Belva Lockwood devoted her life to overcoming obstacles and demanding equality for women.
Activist Belva Lockwood never stopped asking herself the question Are women not worth the same as men?...
| Author | Judy Donnelly |
| ISBN | 0394891899 |
• This book is a great choice for beginners, and tells the story of the death of Tutankhamen. This is a great step into getting children excited to read books that are nonfiction,
• Teachers may use this for History, English
• Grades K-3
• Individual students may read this during...
| Author | Linda Crew |
| ISBN | 0440210224 |
Sundara fled Cambodia with her aunt's family to escape the Khmer Rouge army when she was thirteen, leaving behind her parents, her brother and sister, and the boy she had loved since she was a child.
Now, four years later, she struggles to fit in at her Oregon high school and to be "a good Cambodian...
| Author | Betsy Maestro |
| ISBN | 0688101925 |
With accurate historical information, this easy-to-understand book tells why and how the Constitution of the United States was created. A More Perfect Union includes a map and back matter with a table of dates and a summary of the Articles of the Constitution.
"A simple, attractive, informative...
| Author | Barbara Brenner |
| ISBN | 0064440524 |
I really like this story and find it very unique in its choice of topic. Here we have a tale of black pioneers heading west to settle on free land being offered by the government. Based on the real life story of the Muldie boys, whose story was chronicled in a local teacher's journal from the town of Nicodemus....
Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross
| Author | Augusta Stevenson |
| ISBN | 0020418205 |
I really enjoyed reading the story of Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross by Augusta Stevenson. The writing was simple and easy to understand, yet it was still interesting. The author made it easy to connect with the characters by the way she explained everything. I think that connecting...
| Author | Stephen Krensky |
| ISBN | 0679803696 |
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Christopher Columbus is a great informational book all about Christopher Columbus and his journey to discovering the new world. It honestly gave more insight into his journey that I did not know very well. It was a great read.
2. Grade level, interest...
| Author | Frank Murphy |
| ISBN | 0375810153 |
This is my first time to read a book about George Washington. First, Gerorge Washington lived in his own home and he loved all kinds of animals in his home. He had 36 dogs in his life. Then, American people fighted England, bacause American wanted to have their own country, and England wanted them to be part...
| Author | D. Jeanene Watson |
| ISBN | 0880620129 |
Serving the Poorest of the Poor Agnes and her family lived in Macedonia in eastern Europe. Agnes eagerly read letters by missionaries from faraway places. She especially enjoyed the letters from Calcutta, India. Eventually Agnes arrived in Calcutta where she taught young, well-to-do girls. They...
| Author | Robert Cwiklik |
| ISBN | 0812039211 |
I didn't care much for this biography of Albert Einstein. Oh, it presented the facts of his life well enough. It also did a good job of explaining Einstein's theories and showing why they were so revolutionary. What turned me off was Mr. Cwiklik's style of presenting Einstein's life. He didn't engage...
I found this a fascinating read. It was the perfect follow-up to the novel “Sandcastle Girls” by Bohjalian. I was lucky to be studying some of my shelves and rediscovered this gem at precisely the right moment! The author writes about his mother’s life in Turkey in the early 1900s and centers on...
| Author | Carol Matas |
| ISBN | 0689807228 |
"Didn't the gas ovens finish you all off?" is the response that meets Ruth Mendenberg when she returns to her village in Poland after the liberation of Buchenwald at the end of World War II. Her entire family wiped out in the Holocaust, the fifteen-year-old girl has nowhere to go. Members of the underground...
Martha Washington: America's First First Lady
| Author | Jean Brown Wagoner |
| ISBN | 0020421605 |
Originally published in 1947.
In the 1930's, the "Childhood of Famous Americans" series was started with a simple biography of Abraham Lincoln's childhood. Eventually, there were dozens of books in this series. In my childhood I remember my small town library had a shelf full of these books...
Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker's Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty
| Author | Russell Freedman |
| ISBN | 0823423743 |
In 1723 Ben Franklin arrived in Philadelphia as a poor and friendless seventeen-year-old who had run away from his family and an apprenticeship in Boston. Sixty-two years later he stepped ashore in nearly the same spot but was greeted by cannons, bells, and a cheering crowd, now a distinguished statesman,...
Daily Reflections For Highly Effective Teens
| Author | Sean Covey |
| ISBN | 0684870606 |
Make the ultimate teenage success guide part of your life every day.
Sean Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens has helped hundreds of thousands of teens find a path toward success and personal fulfilment. Now, with Daily Reflections for Highly Effective Teens, comes a book that will...
Our Eleanor: A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt's Remarkable Life
| Author | Candace Fleming |
| ISBN | 0689865449 |
No matter how the question is answered, one thing is clear: There has hardly been a life in the last century that Eleanor Roosevelt has not affected, in one way or another. From securing safe, low-cost housing for Kentucky's poor, to helping her grandchildren hang a tire swing on the White House's south...
Labor's Untold Story: The Adventure Story of the Battles, Betrayals and Victories of American Working Men and Women
| Author | Richard O. Boyer |
| ISBN | 0916180018 |
Fundamentally, labor's story is the story of the American people. To view it narrowly, to concentrate on the history of specific trade unions or on the careers of individuals and their rivalries, would be to miss the point that the great forces which have swept the American people into action have been...
Living on the Devil's Doorstep: International Adventures
| Author | Floyd McClung |
| ISBN | 0927545454 |
When thousands of young people checked out of Western society and sought enlightenment in the East, Floyd and Sally McClung set aside the comforts of American suburbia and answered God's call to reach out to them with the gospel. In Kabul, Afghanistan, a key stop on the hippy trail, and later in Amsterdam,...
A History of U. S.: War, Peace & All That Jazz
8Y, Review 7, 224 pages, 4/28/2016
History is an intriguing part of us. We can learn from it, and we can know what mistakes (as mankind) we made. The book A History of US: War, Peace, and All That Jazz: 1918-1945, written by Joy Hakim, deals with a time period where we had both the good times and the...
| Author | Eleanor H. Ayer |
| ISBN | 0689832362 |
She was a young German Jew. He was an ardent member of the Hitler Youth. This is the story of their pareallel journey through World War II. Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck were born just a few miles from each other in the German Rhineland. But their lives took radically different courses: Helen's to the...
