Giant Steps;Suffragettes and Soldiers - Softcover

Mary Blair Immel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0871954060 ISBN 13: 9780871954060

Publisher: Indiana Historical Society, 2017

Synopsis

As Giant Steps opens, Bernie Epperson, age thirteen, of Lafayette, Indiana, is wrestling with the double standards placed on her compared with her brothers. Soon her cousin awakens her to all the unfair restrictions women face, and Bernie becomes a suffragette. Meanwhile, World War I begins. Her family is devastated when her brothers become soldiers, and Bernie must decide how to help the war effort and continue to fight for the rights of women. While this story is fictional, the details of the suffrage movement and the war efforts of ordinary Americans are true. Middle and high school students will relate to Bernie and her brothers dilemmas a century ago because they also face making decisions in a turbulent world while sifting through contradictory news and changing wisdom.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

Bernie just wanted to have fun with her older brothers but is always told to be more ladylike. When her cousins and aunt introduce her to the fight for women's suffrage, she's inspired to make her voice heard. But what will happen when she's caught in the middle of the suffrage movement while supporting her brothers and the effort to win World War I? Then her parents get a call that her oldest brother is sick with the flu....

About the Author

With a master s degree in U.S. history, Mary Blair Immel has taught at several grade levels. She is an award-winning storyteller and author, including Two-Way Street (1965), a Scholastic Books Teenage Book Club Selection, and the IHS Press book, Captured! A Boy Trapped in the Civil War (2006).

Edition details

• Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0871954060
• ISBN 13: 9780871954060
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 238