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Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909 Written by Michelle Markel Illustrated by Melissa Sweet Balzer & Bray, 2013, unpaged, ISBN 978-0- 06180-442-7
Clara Lemlich had the potential to be powerless. She was a small girl, newly arrived in a big country, poor, and unfamiliar with the language. But, as Markel tells us, "This girl's got grit, and she's going to prove it." Brave Girl is a historical biography with powerful implications for readers today. Clara's family immigrated to the US from eastern Europe in the early 1900s, seeking new hope in...