| Description |
vii, 163 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-157) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Bad, mad, or thoroughly rotten -- Delilah (circa 110 BCE), a mere snip of a girl -- Jezebel (9th century BCE), a perfectly bad queen -- Cleopatra (69-30 BCE), the queen of denial -- Salome (circa 14-71 CE), a little strip of a girl -- Anne Boleyn (circa 1500-1536), she lost her head for love -- Bloody Mary (1516-1558), a woman of burning faith -- Elisabeth Báthory (1560-1614), Countess Bloodbath -- Moll Cutpurse (circa 1584-1659), high directress of the Black Dogs -- Tituba (circa 1670s-?), one witchy woman -- Anne Bonney (late 1600s-1720s) and Mary Read, pirates in petticoats -- Peggy Shippen Arnold (1760-1804), bride of treason -- Catherine the Great (1729-1796), queen of coups -- Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1817-1864), the rebel rose -- Belle Starr (1848-1889), belle of the bad-boy ball -- Calamity Jane (circa 1852-1903), courtin' calamity -- Lizzie Bordon (1860-1927), one whacky woman -- Madame Alexe Popova (1850s-1909), she popped over three hundred -- Pearl Hart (circa 1871-1925), mama's wild child -- Typhoid Mary (1869-1938), a cook without a conscience -- Mata Hari (1876-1917), the spy who loved everyone -- Ma Barker (circa 1873-1935), mother knows worst -- Beulah Annan (circa 1901-1928) and Belva Gaertner (circa 1885-1965), Chicago's merry murderesses -- Bonnie Parker (1910-1934), Clyde's girl -- Virginia Hill (1916-1966), gangster girlfriend -- Conclusion: Modern times and changing gender roles. |
| Summary |
"Meet twenty-six of history's most notorious women. Each bad girl has a rotten reputation, but there are two sides to every tale."--Amazon.com. |
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Harlot or hero? Liar or lady? There are two sides to every story. Meet twenty-six of history's most notorious women, and debate alongside authors Yolen and Stemple--who appear in the book as themselves in a series of comic panels--as to each girl's guilt or innocence. |
| Study Program |
Reading Counts RC 6-8 5.3 7.0 60196. |
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Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.4 3.0 156827. |
| Subject |
Female offenders -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Femmes fatales -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Women murderers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Women -- Biography.
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Female offenders. (OCoLC)fst00922629
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Femmes fatales. (OCoLC)fst00922841
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Women murderers. (OCoLC)fst01178169
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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| Added Author |
Stemple, Heidi E. Y.
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| ISBN |
9781580891851 (reinforced for library use) |
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1580891853 (reinforced for library use) |
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