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Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Known for her extraordinary and record-breaking trip around the world and her undercover investigation of a mental institution, Nellie Bly was one of the first female investigative reporters in the United States and a pioneer in the field of journalism"--
2) Nellie Bly
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Nellie Bly was a journalist and one of the first investigative reporters ever. She went undercover to expose wrongdoing and famously raced around the world so she could write about the experience for her newspaper. Reaching for her dreams wasn't easy. But Nellie never gave up, no matter how many obstacles she faced--and she helped others along the way." -- Amazon.com.
3) Ten days a madwoman: the daring life and turbulent times of the original "girl" reporter Nellie Bly
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A biography of Nellie Bly, the pioneering journalist whose showy but substantive stunts skyrocketed her to fame"--
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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AR 8 to 10 Childrens and Teen Titles
Children's Biographies: 150+ pages
Children's Special Topics: Nonfiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Biographies: 150+ pages
Children's Special Topics: Nonfiction with Lexile Over 1000
Description
"Ida Minerva Tarbell was a pioneer among journalists. Before exposés were routine, she wrote a series of magazine articles detailing the shady business practices of John D. Rockefeller, head of the powerful conglomerate called the Standard Oil Trust. Ida's articles--and the public uproar they aroused--resulted in legislation against trusts, and in government regulation of business in general. Her work made history, beyond the history of journalism....
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Biographies: 150+ pages
Children's New Books: January 2023 Biographies
Children's Special Topics: Women's History Month 2024
Children's New Books: January 2023 Biographies
Children's Special Topics: Women's History Month 2024
Description
"Young crime reporter Hilde Lysiak shares, for the first time, how she started her own newspaper, the Orange Street News, and how she was able to not only survive the ups and downs of her youth but emerge from it all with a renewed sense of purpose and confidence"--
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In 1888, a young, female reporter for New York World newspaper sets out to travel around the world in fewer than eighty days, while a Cosmopolitan magazine reporter tries to beat her to the goal.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life of Nellie Bly who, as a "stunt reporter" for the New York World newspaper in the late 1800s, championed women's rights and traveled around the world faster than anyone ever had.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Born into slavery in 1862, Ida Bell Wells was freed as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865. Yet she could see just how unjust the world she was living in was. This drove her to become a journalist and activist. Throughout her life, she fought against prejudice and for equality for African Americans. Ida B. Wells would go on to co-own a newspaper, write several books, help cofound the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
©2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Story of Ida B. Wells, one of the great, yet one of the least known, civil rights leaders. A promised journalist, she is remembered for her leadership in women's voting rights, the NAACP, and anti-lynching.
11) Diane Sawyer
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A biography of the television journalist who joined the staff of 60 Minutes as that show's first female correspondent and has also worked on programs like Good Morning America.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Biographies: 150+ pages
Children's New Books: February 2023 Biographies
Children's Special Topics: Women's History Month 2024
Children's New Books: February 2023 Biographies
Children's Special Topics: Women's History Month 2024
Description
". . . tells the story of French-born Catherine Leroy, one of the Vietnam War's few woman photographers, who documented some of the fiercest fighting in the twenty-year conflict. Despite being told that women didn't belong in a "man's world," she was cool under fire, gravitated toward the thickest battles, went along on the soldiers' slogs through the heat and mud of the jungle, crawled through rice paddies, and became the only official photojournalist...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Enter a world of shrunken heads, mystic holy men, shriveled aliens, and bizarre relics in the delightfully odd tale of Robert Ripley. Born in California, Ripley began his career as a sports cartoonist. He went on to chronicle global records and oddities in his weekly column, Believe It Or Not! After publishing mogul William Randolph Hearst took an interest in the column, it became a syndicated global success. Ripley spent his life traveling to more...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"An inspiring picture book biography of Ida B. Wells--who was an educator, journalist, feminist, businesswoman, newspaper owner, public speaker, suffragist, civil rights activist, and women's club leader--as told by her great-granddaughter, Michelle Duster"--
15) Ugly
Author
Publisher
VIKING, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Biographies: 150+ pages
Children's Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
Children's Recommended: Biographies for 5th Graders
Children's Genre: Narrative Nonfiction
Children's Recommended: Biographies for 5th Graders
Description
"Robert Hoge was born with a tumor the size of a tennis ball in the middle of his face and short, twisted legs, but he refused to let what made him different stand in the way of leading a happy, successful life. This is the true story of how he embraced his circumstances and never let his "ugly" stop him from focusing on what truly mattered."--
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