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Title 1789 : twelve authors explore a year of rebellion, revolution, and change / edited by Marc Aronson and Susan Campbell Bartoletti.

Publication Info. Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, [2020]

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 PHS MackinVia EBook  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The age of revolutions -- Exhilaration -- The fishwives make the rules / by Tanya Lee Stone -- The contradictory king / by Karen Engelmann -- Pi, Vega, and the battle at Belgrade / by Amy Alznauer -- Abomination -- The queen's chemise / by Susan Campbell Bartoletti -- The choice / by Marc Aronson -- All men are created equal / by Joyce Hansen -- Inspiration -- The Wesleyans in the West Indies / by Summer Edward -- Who counted in America? / by Cynthia Levinson and Sanford Levinson -- Mary Jemison and the Seneca Nation / by Christopher Turner -- Conclusions -- Challenging time / by Sally M. Walker -- Mutiny on the Bounty / by Steve Sheinkin.
Indexed In: Horn Book Guide, 10/2020
Kirkus Reviews Starred, 7/15/2020
Publishers Weekly Starred, 10/19/2020
School Library Connection, 8/2020
School Library Journal, 7/2020
Summary Collects ten stories of men and women at the forefront of social and political change in the year 1798, a time when democracies and revolutions were being solidified and enacted around the world, from the United States to France to the Caribbean. Includes stories of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Marie Antoinette, the former slave Olaudah Equaino, and painter Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun.
Audience 9-12.
1150 Lexile.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Note Description based on book record.
Subject Electronic books.
Eighteenth century.
Social change.
Europe -- History -- 1789-1815.
United States -- History -- 1783-1815.
Added Author Aronson, Marc, editor.
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell, editor.
Added Title Seventeen eighty nine
ISBN 9781536216073

 
    
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