Gourley, Catherine

Discusses the girls and women in the industrial workforce of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the reforms and movements that changed their working conditions and the nature of the work itself.

Joanna, at sixteen, leaves her farm family to become housekeeper for a widowed Irish miner in a Pennsylvania coal mining town in the 1880s.

Presents two plays about bullying, first from two different viewpoints, that of the victim, and that of the bully. Young people will learn how to recognize it and how to change it.

An in-depth look at life for girls and women in America in 1904, discussing city and town life, social reform, new inventions, amusements, and more.

A collection of facts and stories, both historical and traditional, about sharks, their behavior, and their interaction with people.

Presents a biography of Maria Tallchief, the Osage Indian ballerina whose love of dance took her from a life on a reservation to a career on the stage.

Profiles nineteenth-century women who overcame the disadvantage of being female in order to change the society in which they lived, by promoting temperance, child labor laws, health care, and other causes.

An account of American whaling using excerpts from diaries, ships' logs, letters, and other documents written by the men and women who participated in the industry during the 19th century.

An in-depth look at life for girls and women in America in 1904, discussing city and town life, social reform, new inventions, amusements, and more.

Explores how images in the media, including magazine advertisements and mail order catalogs, influenced how women saw themselves and helped them to be both fashionable and frugal in the 1930s and 1940s.