Kate Shelley: Bound for Legend
Publication Information
Author:  San Souci, Robert D.	Illustrator:  Ginsburg, Max
Title:  Kate Shelley: Bound for Legend	Date:  1995
Publisher:  Dial	City:  New York
ISBN, paperback:  0-8037-1290-1	ISBN, hardback:
Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes	ESOL:
Family:   Yes	Young Adult:
Picture:   Yes
General Information:
Book Type(s):    historical fiction
HSE Descriptor(s):    social studies
Summary:
This is the story of a 15-year-old girl who helped prevent a train disaster in 1881.
Teaching Ideas:
This is a beautiful and well written story of a strong and determined young woman, and the action section would be good material for a DR-TA. The map is a wonderful addition to the story and allows students to learn Midwest geography or do math and map computation. This book would fit in a unit on natural disasters (with Ballard's Titanic, Fisher's Kinderdike, and McCloskey's Time of Wonder) or in a unit on women heroines (with McCully's The Pirate Queen and Lawrence's Harriet and the Promised Land).
Teaching Strategies:
DR-TA: Directed Reading Thinking Activity    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/dr_ta.pdf
Keywords: select any link below for a list of resources which also have that keyword
Geography > maps Hardships > disasters > natural disasters > flood History > time period > 19th Century History > region > U.S. history Social Studies > sociology > women Transportation > trains Geography > locations > U.S. states/regions > Iowa

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