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A woman in the House (and Senate) : how women came to the United States Congress, broke down barriers, and changed the country / by Ilene Cooper ; illustrations by Elizabeth Baddeley ; foreword by Former U.S. senator Olympia Snowe.
For the first 128 years of our country's history, not a single woman served in the Senate or House of Representatives. All of that changed, however, in November 1916, when Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress--even before the Nineteenth Amendment gave women across the U.S. the right to vote. Beginning with the women's suffrage movement and going all the way through the results of the 2012 election, Ilene Cooper covers more than a century of U.S. history in order to highlight the influential and diverse group of female leaders who opened doors for women in politics as well as the nation as a whole.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781419710360 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 1419710362 (hbk.)
- Physical Description: 134 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
- Publisher: New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 122-127) and index. |
| Target Audience Note: | 1040L Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader MG 7.6 4 4 164481 |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Lehigh Carbon Library Cooperative.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Palmerton Area Library | J 320 C78 (Text) | 30041100174133 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Parkland Community Library | J 320 COO (Text) | 34422006806745 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
