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Author Bohrer, Melissa Lukeman.

Title Glory, passion, and principle : the story of eight remarkable women at the core of the American Revolution / Melissa Lukeman Bohrer.

Publication Info. New York : Atria Books, [2003]
©2003

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Pearl Street Branch Library - Adult Department  920 BOH    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  973.3082 BOH    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.3 B63    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  973.3082 BOH    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  973.3082 BOHRER    DUE 04-22-24
Description xv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Profiles eight American women who made significant contributions to the American Revolution, from sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington, who rode twice as far as Paul Revere to alert patriots; to Deborah Samson, who posed as a man to fight as a Continental Army soldier; to Phyllis Wheatley, a slave and first-published African-American author.
Contents With the wind in her hair : Sibyl Ludington -- Breaking the chains of silence : Phillis Wheatley -- First advisers : Abigail Adams -- Her pen as sword : Mercy Otis Warren -- Spy games : Lydia Darragh -- A sister in arms : Molly Pitcher -- Soldier with a secret : Deborah Sampson -- A woman warrior : Nancy Ward.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.9 15.0 80125.
Subject Women -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Women.
Women -- Biography.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Biography.
ISBN 0743453301 $24.00
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