Goldie takes a stand : Golda Meir's first crusade

by Barbara Krasner

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

Call number

J 799

Tags

child, biography

Subjects

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

Publication

Minneapolis, MN : Kar-Ben Publishing, 2014.

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.

User reviews

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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.

Awards

Sydney Taylor Book Award (Mass Import -- Pending Differentiation)
CCBC Choices (2015)

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Status

Available

Call number

J 799

ISBN

9781467712002

Barcode

30402098628177

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