Independent Dames: What You Never Knew about the Women and Girls of the American Revolution

Listen up You've all heard about the great men who led and fought during the American Revolution; but did you know that the guys only make up part of the story? What about the women? The girls? The dames? Didn't they play a part?

Of course they did, and with page after page of superbly researched information and thoughtfully detailed illustrations, acclaimed novelist and picture-book author Laurie Halse Anderson and charismatic illustrator Matt Faulkner prove the case in this entertaining, informative, and long overdue homage to those independent dames

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 06/03/2008
ISBN: 9780689858086
Pages: 37
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 10.20h x 11.30w x 0.40d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/26/2008 pg. 65
Kirkus Review - Children 05/15/2008 pg. 539
School Library Journal 08/01/2008 pg. 107
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2008 pg. 605
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2009 - Superior,Well Above Average

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 123474 / Independent Dames: What You Never Knew about the Women and Girls of the American Revolution
Reading Level: 6.1 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 1