Eleanor Roosevelt: Fighter for Social Justice

by Ann Weil, Gray Morrow (Illustrator)

Overview

Eleanor Roosevelt: Fighter for Social Justicer is the next installment in the Childhood of Famous Americans series.

Using simple language that beginning readers can understand, this lively, inspiring, and believable biography looks at the childhood of Eleanor Roosevelt, who grew up to become one of America's most popular first ladies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780689713484
Publisher:	Aladdin
Publication date:	11/30/1989
Series:	Childhood of Famous Americans
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	642,358
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.70(d)
Lexile:	610L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Anne Weil was the author of Eleanor Roosevelt: Fighter for Social Justice, Betsy Ross: Designer of Our Flag, and Red Sails to Capri, which was a 1953 Newbery Honor Book.

Dwight Graydon “Gray” Morrow (1934–2001) was an American illustrator who contributed to many comics and children’s books. He was the cocreator of Marvel Comics’ the Man-Thing and DC Comics’ vigilante El Diablo.

Table of Contents

	Eleanor Visits Hyde Park	11
	Going to Europe	20
	The Big Ship	26
	Travel Fever	35
	The Map	51
	Pietro's Shoes	57
	I Promise	70
	Surprising Things Can Happen	87
	The New Schoolroom	105
	Tivoli on the Hudson	113
	A Visit with Uncle Teddy	127
	-And All Grown-up	142
	Eleanor and Franklin	159
	The White House	177
	The United Nations	186