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A Take-Charge Girl Blazes a Trail to Congress: The Story of Jeannette Rankin



by
Gretchen Woelfle
illustrated by
Rebecca Gibbon

Edition
Hardcover edition
Publisher
Astra House Publishing
Imprint
Astra Young Readers
ISBN
9781662680120
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For take-charge girls in the making and fans of I Dissent and Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice,this is the story of Jeannette Rankin, the first US congresswoman.

Jeannette Rankin was always a take-charge girl. Whether taking care of horses or her little brothers and sisters—Jeannette knew what to do and got the job done. That’s why, when she saw poor children living in bad conditions in San Francisco, she knew she had to take charge and change things.

But in the early twentieth century, women like Jeannette couldn’t vote to change the laws that failed to protect children. Jeannette became an activist and led the charge, campaigning for women’s right to vote. And when her home state, Montana, gave women that right, Jeannette ran for Congress and became America’s first congressWOMAN!

Author’s note, with photographs. Jeannette Rankin time line. Bibliography. Full-color illustrations were created with acrylic inks and colored pencil.

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Details

Format

Print

Page Count

40

Trim Size

9" x 11"

Dewey

B

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0: points 0

Lexile

710L

Genre

Nonfic

Scholastic Reading Counts

0

JLG Release

May 2023

Book Genres

Autobiography/Biography, Narrative Nonfiction, Picture Book

Topics

Jeannette Rankin (1880–1973). Montana. Twentieth-century Montana politics and government. Voting. Women’s suffrage. Women legislators. US congresswomen.

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