The compelling and true story of how one truly dedicated journalist admitted herself to an asylum to write a groundbreaking expos .

Young Nellie Bly had ambitious goals, especially for a woman at the end of the nineteenth century, when the few female journalists were relegated to writing columns about cleaning or fashion. But fresh off a train from Pittsburgh, Nellie knew she was destined for more and pulled a major journalistic stunt that skyrocketed her to fame: feigning insanity, being committed to the notorious asylum on Blackwell's Island, and writing a shocking expos of the clinic's horrific treatment of its patients.

Nellie Bly became a household name and raised awareness of political corruption, poverty, and abuses of human rights. Leading an uncommonly full life, Nellie circled the globe in a record seventy-two days and brought home a pet monkey before marrying an aged millionaire and running his company after his death.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 02/07/2017
ISBN: 9780147508744
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.90w x 0.50d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 180417 / Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of the Original "girl" Reporter, Nellie Bly
Reading Level: 8.1 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 5