Theme: Women's rights

The Firefly Letters

By Book Importer | Published: June 17, 2010

A stunning novel in verse by a Newbery Honor-winning author paints a portrait of early women’s right pioneer Frederika Bremer and the journey to Cuba that transformed her life.
See the review at WOW Review, Volume 3, Issue 1

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Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum, Peril, and Romance

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

It is 1901 and Mable Riley dreams of adventure and of becoming a writer. When her older sister leaves home to become a schoolmistress in the small town of Stratford, Ontario, Mable is sent along too. Mable hopes her new world will be full of peril and romance. But life at the Goodhand Farm (where [...]

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Keeping Corner

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Pretty as a peacock, twelve-year-old Leela had been spoiled all her life. She doesn’t care for school and barely marks the growing unrest between the British colonists and her own countrymen. Why should she? Her future has been planned since her engagement at two and marriage at nine. Leela’s whole life changes, though, when her husband [...]

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