Goldie Takes a Stand: Golda Meir's First Crusade

by Barbara Krasner

Other authorsKelsey Garrity-Riley (Illustrator.)
Book, 2014

Barcode

123460350

Call number

E 799 KRA

Tags

Women, Famous Jews, Israel

Genres

Collection

Picture Books

Publication

Minneapolis, MN : Kar-Ben Pub., 2014

Description

Even at the age of nine, little Golda Meir was known for her leadership skills. As president of the American Young Sisters Society, she organized friends to raise money to buy textbooks for immigrant classmates. This story is a glimpse at the early life of Israel's first woman Prime Minister.

User reviews

LibraryThing member Sullywriter
As president of the American Young Sisters Society in Milwaukee, nine-year-old Golda Meir organizes a fundraising campaign to buy school books for poor children. Factual events but the dialogue is invented.

Subjects

Meir, Golda, 1898-1978
Meir, Golda, Childhood and youth 1898-1978

Awards

CCBC Choices

ISBN

1467712019 / 9781467712019

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