Murphy, Claire Rudolf

Not allowed to go hiking with her father and brothers because she is a girl, Bessie learns about women's rights when she attends a suffrage rally led by Susan B. Anthony.

"More than any other, one song traces America's history of patriotism and protest." Discover how the lyrics have been adapted, from pre-colonial times to the present day.

A collection of eighteen true stories about women who played key roles in the development of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.

At the end of the nineteenth century, Swedish-Americans Klondy and her mother travel from South Dakota to Alaska to live with Klondy's father, a gold-miner who left for the mines when she was just a baby. Based on events in the life of Klondy Nelson.

Contains profiles and photographs of children who went to the Yukon and Alaska during the gold rush age of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

In northern Alaska an Eskimo girl is transformed into a caribou and travels with the herd in order to save her human family from starvation.

Chronicles the contributions given to the Lewis and Clark expeditions by York, Clark's slave, and Sacajawea, the Shoshone woman who led them through hostile Indian territory.

Seventeen-year-old Sarah hopes that accompanying her father on an expedition to climb Mount McKinley will help to bridge the gap that has widened between them since her parents' divorce.

Seventeen-year-old Sarah hopes that accompanying her father on an expedition to climb Mount McKinley will help to bridge the gap that has widened between them since her parents' divorce.

Describes the field trip of eleven Cub Scouts from Alaska to Provideniya, a small town in the Soviet Far East.