AddressesĪgent-c/o Author Mail, HarperCollins, 10 E. Hobbies and other interests: Reading, hiking, singing, rock climbing. Navy warship? The answers to all these questions are in this engaging National Geographic title that belongs in every home, school, and library where young women are encouraged to strive toward greatness.Born New York, NY Education: Attended Kenyon College. Which American woman became the first to win three gold medals at a single Olympics? Who was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest? Who was New York’s first female firefighter? And who was the first woman to command a U.S. Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize? And the first to win a Nobel Prize for Literature? Who was the first female African American self made millionaire? And the first African American Poet Laureate? Author Elizabeth Cody Kimmel presents a rich cross section of profiles from a broad range of endeavors.
Who was the first woman to row across the Atlantic? Or to swim the English Channel? Or to graduate from medical school? A rich source of educational and historic material for students, the book also highlights inspirational role models for girls. The book provides a vital starting point for report writers and researchers, and a rich source of information for fact lovers of all ages. The life stories of these women are as inspiring as they are diverse. A full page portrait begins each informative three page profile.
Ladies First introduces young readers to 40 American women of achievement who were first in their field. In this beautifully layered story of friendships gained, lost, changed members of the ‘whatever’ and the ‘fossil’ generations embark on a tenderly funny, frequently awkward journey full of unsettling, exhilarating discoveries that make life at any age captivating and worthwhile.’In Visiting Miss Caples, one generation reaches out movingly to another at that scary, necessary moment when you declare your independence, and begin to look around for your life.’ Richard Peck, 1998 Newbery Honor winner But when, in desperation, Jenna decides to tell her ‘audience’ about her rapidly unraveling life, everything changes inside and out of that dusty room. Jenna has just begun her dreaded participation in a class project she and her friends call ‘fossil sitting.’ So far this has meant being trapped in a dusty room reading heroic pet stories to one Miss Elspeth Caples, a strange old lady determined to ignore her existence. Ninety year old Elspeth Caples is a fragile shut in eclipsed by a past filled with wrong turns and missed opportunities. Thirteen year old Jenna has always been a devoted second banana to her glamorous friend Liv.
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