Goldie Takes a Stand: Golda Meir’s First Crusade

by Barbara Krasner

Other authorsKelsey Garrity-Riley (Illustrator)
Paperback, 2014

Status

Available

Call number

E B MEI

Publication

Kar-Ben Publishing (2014), 32 pages

Description

A look at the early life of Israel's first female prime minster shares a story from her childhood in which, at age nine, she organized her friends to raise money to buy textbooks for immigrant classmates.

Barcode

6313

Awards

Sydney Taylor Book Award (Mass Import -- Pending Differentiation)

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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.

ISBN

1467712000 / 9781467712002
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