100 Years in the Life of an American Girl
Author | : Suzanne Sherman |
Publisher | : Szs Publishing |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2015-01-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 0990452700 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780990452706 |
Rating | : 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: In 1911 Florence rides in a Model T her dad buys from a door-to-door car salesman. Julia climbs trees in a skirt and bloomers. Victoria goes to Woodstock at 12. Terri Ann flees Saigon with her Vietnamese mother and American GI father. In Michigan, Aalaa wakes up to a new world on 9/11. Over fifty girls under 13 years old give a unique look at a century of life in fascinating personal narratives for each decade. Born between 1907 and 2001, the girls are from every region of the country and they're a diversity of races and classes. A brief history of each decade with attention to influences on young girls' lives and fun highlights from popular culture introduce the chapters. It's a century of changing social codes and lifestyles, life-altering discoveries and inventions, new forms of entertainment, from wind-up phonographs to computer games. Family life, education, and daily concerns transform in this century of challenges and discoveries, devotions and losses, privileges and prejudices. Whatever your age or gender, you'll learn about yourself, your children, your mothers and grandmothers. It's history in motion, powered by the personal. Are you in a book group? Do you teach or study women's history, pop culture, or American history? Discussion Questions at the end of the book are the perfect prompt for fascinating discussions. _________________ "I love this book! It's an important testimony to the lived history of decades of young girls. Informative, fun and illuminating!" - Linda Joy Myers, President of the National Association of Memoir Writers "This powerful collection of personal stories weaves the American experience like I've never seen done before." - Susan Hagen, co-author of Women at Ground Zero