Born in 1925, Maria Tallchief spent part of her childhood on an Osage reservation in Oklahoma. With the support of her family and world-renowned choreographer George Balanchine, she rose to the top of her art form to become America's first prima ballerina. Black-and-white illustrations provide visual sidebars to the history of ballet while taking readers through the life of this amazing dancer.

Who Was Maria Tallchief?

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Gourley, Catherine

Biographies

Penguin Workshop

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Black-and-white illustrations provide visual sidebars to the history of ballet while taking readers through the life of this amazing dancer who spent part of her childhood on an Osage reservation in Oklahoma.

Who Is Maria Tallchief? (GB) (Who Was...?)

Grosset&Dunlap

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Black-and-white illustrations provide visual sidebars to the history of ballet while taking readers through the life of this amazing dancer who spent part of her childhood on an Osage reservation in Oklahoma.

Who Is Maria Tallchief? (Who Was...?)

Turtleback Books

Provides a look at the influential and powerful female reporters who ventured into dangerous territory to cover an array of major events of World War II, including profiles and photographs of Margaret Burke-White, Shelley Mydans, and Lee Miller.

War, Women, and the News: How Female Journalists Won the Battle to Cover World War II

History

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

A biography of the engineer and industrialist whose innovative methods enabled his company to build and mass-produce reliable and inexpensive automobiles and whose latter years were devoted to establishing a museum reflecting American life before the advent of machines.A biography of the engineer and industrialist whose innovative methods enabled his company to build and mass-produce reliable and inexpensive automobiles

Wheels of Time: A Biography of Henry Ford

Millbrook Pr

Discusses the girls and women in the industrial workforce of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the reforms and movements that changed their working conditions and the nature of the work itself.

Good Girl Work: Factories, Sweatshops, and How Women Changed Their Role in the American Workforce

Growing Up & Facts of Life

A look at how the media can alter the perceptions of the public, making people believe what they are shown, includes historical notes of how media manipulation existed even in the Civil War.

Media Wizards: A Behind-The-Scene Look at Media Manipulations

Teen & Young Adult

Twenty-First Century Books

From the author of Good Girl Work, an historical guide provides a look at the woman of the nineteenth century who banded together to create their own political force which instituted policies that helped improve social programs for the poor and uneducated people of the nation.

Society's Sisters: Stories of Women Who Fought for Social Justice in America

The Confederate prison known as Andersonville existed for only the last fourteen months of the Civil War―but its well-documented legacy of horror has lived on in the diaries of its prisoners and the transcripts of the trial of its commandant. The diaries describe appalling conditions in which vermin-infested men were crowded into an open stockade with a single befouled stream as their water source. Food was scarce and medical supplies virtually nonexistent. The bodies of those who did not survive the night had to be cleared away each morning. Designed to house 10,000 Yankee prisoners, Andersonville held 32,000 during August 1864. Nearly a third of the 45,000 prisoners who passed through the camp perished. Exposure, starvation, and disease were the main causes, but excessively harsh penal practices and even violence among themselves contributed to the unprecedented death rate. At the end of the war, outraged Northerners demanded retribution for such travesties, and they received it in the form of the trial and subsequent hanging of Captain Henry Wirz, the prison’s commandant. The trial was the subject of legal controversy for decades afterward, as many people felt justice was ignored in order to appease the Northerners’ moral outrage over the horrors of Andersonville. The story of Andersonville is a complex one involving politics, intrigue, mismanagement, unfortunate timing, and, of course, people - both good and bad. Relying heavily on first-person reports and legal documents, author Catherine Gourley gives us a fascinating look into one of the most painful incidents of U.S. history.

The Horrors of Andersonville: Life and Death Inside a Civil War Prison (Exceptional Social Studies Titles for Upper Grades)

Biographies & Memoirs

Two plays focus on both body image. Clarisse becomes obsessed with dieting. Sam is impatience for changewill he always be 411 and 98 pounds? Young people will learn that they may have more control over self-image than they imagine.

The Invisible Me: Plays About Self-image (Get Into Character)

Arts, Music & Photography

Crabtree Classics

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