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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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With her trademark humor and anecdotal style, the Newbery Honor Award-winner and preeminent biographer for young people turns her attention to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the lively, unconventional spokeswoman of the woman suffrage movement. Convinced from an early age that women should have the same rights as men, Lizzie embarked on a career that changed America.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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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.
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Making of America (Abrams) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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In the fourth installment in the Making of America series, Susan B. Anthony, Teri Kanefield examines the life of America's famous suffragette. Anthony was born into a world in which men ruled women: A man could beat his wife, take her earnings, have her committed into an asylum based on his word, and take her children away from her. While the young nation was ablaze with the radical notion that people could govern themselves, "people" were understood...
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English
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"Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the country, in search of their next adventure. The seeds were planted: Steinem would spend much of her life on the road, as a journalist, organizer, activist, and speaker. In vivid stories that span an entire career, Steinem writes about her time on the campaign trail, from Bobby Kennedy to Hillary Clinton; her early exposure...
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English
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The author's meticulous quest to collect her subject's scattered writings has yielded a biographical triumph with striking parallels to today's #MeToo movement.
In 1998, author Diane Eickhoff stumbled upon a handmade historical exhibit in a small Kansas museum and was introduced to one of the most remarkable women in feminist history. Clarina Nichols (1810-1885) was a newspaper publisher and political speaker at a time when
10) Susan B. Anthony
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Series
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
1984
Language
English
Description
A biography of one of the first leaders of the campaign for women's rights who helped organize the women's suffrage movement.
16) Margaret Sanger
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Series
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Description
A biography of the feminist who brought safe and legal birth control to the women of America.
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Amelia Bloomer, who does not behave the way nineteenth-century society tells her a proper lady should, introduces pantaloons to American women to save them from the discomfort of their heavy, tight dresses.
18) Susan B. Anthony
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Publisher
Creative Education, Inc
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
A biography of Susan B. Anthony, who spent her life tirelessly working so that women would have rights equal to men's in the United States.
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