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Book Detail
Brave Harriet |
Publication Information
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Author: Moss, Marissa |
Illustrator: Payne, C. F. |
Title: Brave Harriet |
Date: 2001 |
Publisher: Harcourt |
City: San Diego |
ISBN, paperback: 0-15-202380-1 |
ISBN, hardback: |
Recommended audience:
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ABE/ABLE:
Yes |
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Young Adult:
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Picture:
Yes |
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General Information:
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Book Type(s):
biography and autobiography
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HSE Descriptor(s):
social studies
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Summary: |
The story of Harriet Quimby, the first woman to earn a pilot's license and the first woman to fly across the English Channel, is told in the first person. An author's note adds historical facts. |
Teaching Ideas: |
Students can compare Harriet with Amelia Earhart, Fly Pioneer, Bessie Colman, Fly High!, and Charles Lindbergh, Flight, as early aviators using a matrix with columns for motivation, difficulties, barriers overcome, type of plane, etc to keep data for comparison for writing or discussion later. Other writing/discussion topics are: How do authors use actual events as the basis of a story? How did Harriet contribute to women's rights? Web sites contain more information: www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/quimby.htm; www.louisville.edu/library/ekstrom/govpubs/subjects/women/quimby.html; and www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flygirls/peopleevents/pandeAMEX05.html. |
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