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Language
English
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Description
New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini has a gift for transporting listeners into the past for riveting explorations of how seemingly ordinary women overcome extraordinary circumstances. In this departure from her beloved Elm Creek Quilts series, Chiaverini weaves a historical fiction tale profiling the life of Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, a former slave who would become a dressmaker for Mary Todd Lincoln. A character largely forgotten...
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the woman who served as First Lady for the longest time, and who was the first President's wife to speak out about important issues of the day, by writing newspapers articles and books, giving radio interviews and speeches, and teaching classes.
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biographical tribute to the upbringing and career of Eleanor Roosevelt, who taught children in poor neighborhoods in New York City and worked as an ambassador, activist, and champion of civil rights.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An illustrated biography of New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, that chronicles her childhood and early dreams, education and law school, and First Lady of both Arkansas and the United States.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Presents a brief biography in graphic novel format of Dolley Madison, wife of the second president of the United States, who managed to save the portrait of George Washington when the British burned the White House during the War of 1812.
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