Tuesday 18 February 2014

The 2014 Amelia Bloomer Project List

The Amelia Bloomer Project is part of the Feminist Task Force of the American Library Association’s Social Responsibility Round Table.  Each year it selects books with significant feminist content that will appeal to young readers in the following categories:
  • Early Readers: Fiction, Non-fiction
  • Middle Grade: Fiction, Non-fiction
  • Young Adult: Fiction, Non-fiction
This year two #youngCanLit books were recognized in the Middle Grade Non-fiction category. 
  
Congratulations to authors  
Christine Welldon and Frieda Wishinsky 
on this recognition!


Reporter in Disguise: The Intrepid Vic Steinberg
by Christine Welldon
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
78 pp.
Gr. 5-8
2013
A biography of Vic Steinberg, an early female reporter, who used disguises to go places most women of her time weren’t allowed.


Profiles: Freedom Heroines
by Frieda Wishinsky
Scholastic
144 pp.
Gr. 4-6
2012
The stories of six women who furthered the cause of civil rights and feminism.

Profiles: Freedom Heroines was selected as a Top Ten Amelia Bloomer Book


The complete 2014 Amelia Bloomer Project List can be viewed at
http://ameliabloomer.wordpress.com/2014/01/30/2014-amelia-bloomer-project-list/

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