19 true stories of girls from 19th century America who contributed to our history, culture, and community. Each is remembered with some landmark (city park, statue, mountain peak, etc.).
Professional Reviews
The Midwest Book Review
Betty Bolte's Hometown Heroines is a superbly presented collection of historical biographies of young women who lived in 19th century America. Each of the nineteen young women featured is so extraordinary that she is remembered with at least one memorial ranging from a city park to a mountain peak. For example, Kate Shelley is remembered for crawling across a high railroad trestle to stop the next train during a dangerous storm, while the young teacher Minnie Freeman led her seventeen students to safety through a blizzard. Very highly recommended for women's studies, Hometown Heroines is a rare and exciting glimpse of how women contributed to American history and a refreshing supplement to the male-dominated stories so routinely found in American history textbooks.
Girls' Life - Soul Food
America! It's the land of the free and the home of the brave -- some of the bravest chicks ever! Celebrate your patriotism. This isn't your third-period history book -- it's packed with pages of pride. Cheer on 19 kick-butt 19th-century girls who risked it all for their country.
Fourth Book in the Southern Swallow Series finds the Academician Li K'ai-men in exile on Hai-nan Island. China has a new invasion threat. A showdown between ingenuity and technology explodes as the Sung Dynasty tries to preserve itself.
Based on the memoirs of a Pearl Harbor survivor. Letters from two pen pals take the reader on a journey into the past, a past where nightmares came true, and when hatred reigned.
Tralee, Ireland. September 1948.
An arrogant, and highly agitated, priest arrives home after 40 years.
Days later he's dead. Suicide? Or did his past catch up with him?
