| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780517885673 | | Publisher: Crown Publishers Inc. | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 30089350 | | Item#: R3YKPY | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9.5H x 8.25L x 0.25T |
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| | | Now in paperback--the award-winning account of how 18 million women, many of whom had never before held a job, entered the work force in 1942-45 to help the United States fight World War II. Their unprecedented participation would change the course of history for women, and America, forever.
An ALA Best Book for Young Adult
An ALA Notable Book
A "Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon Book
An IRA Teachers' Choice
A Junior Library Guild Selection
An NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Award Winner for Outstanding Nonfiction
A New York Public Library Best Book for the Teenager
A "School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
Annotation:
Based on interviews and original research, this is an account of the millions of American women who worked non-traditional jobs in such places as defense plants, factories, farms, and offices during World War II. Women were needed to fill these jobs while most men were fighting in Europe and Japan, but when the war ended they were expected to give up their careers and return to their domestic traditional roles. Black-and-white photographs illustrate the text.
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"The strengths of this book are in the happy combination of abundant primary source material, a clear narrative style, and effective, well-placed photographs. An important contribution." |
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