Karen Karbo
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Most people associate Georgia O'Keeffe with New Mexico, painted cow skulls, and her flower paintings. She was revered for so long -- born in 1887, died at age ninety-eight in 1986 -- that we forget how young, restless, passionate, searching, striking, even fearful she once was -- a dazzling, mysterious female force in bohemian New York City during its heyday. In this distinctive book, in her characteristic style, Karen Karbo makes one of the greatest...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Presents information on female rule-breakers, including Josephine Baker, Jane Goodall, Margaret Cho, and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Karbo presents brief information on iconic female rule-breakers. She shows how these women charted their paths with little regard for social or cultural expectations, living lives that both illuminate and inspire.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Still enjoying her new found self-confidence, a thirteen-year-old sleuth in Portland, Oregon, tries to uncover a missing red diamond and gets herself mixed up with a crooked animal shelter worker and some very strange animals.