Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909 - Hardcover
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Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
The true story of the young immigrant who led the largest strike of women workers in U.S. history. This picture book biography about the plight of immigrants in America in the early 1900s and the timeless fight for equality and justice should not be missed.
When Clara arrived in America, she couldn't speak English. She didn't know that young women had to go to work, that they traded an education...
Michelle Markel loves writing narrative nonfiction. She's the author of Brave Girl, which won the Bank Street Flora Stieglitz Straus Award and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award for Younger Children, and was also chosen as an NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book. Her recent titles are Hillary Rodham Clinton: Some Girls Are Born to Lead (on the Amelia Bloomer Project List of...
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🏆 2014 Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable - Younger Readers Award|2014 Orbis Pictus Award Honor Book - Children's Nonfiction Award|2014 Jane Addams Children's Book Award Winner - Bks for Younger Children Award|2014 Children's Book Committee Award Winner - Nonfiction Award|2013 Lupine Award Honor Book - Picture Book Award|2015 Star of the North Picture Book Award Nominee - Grades K-2 Award|2016 Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award Nominee - Grades 3-5 Award
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