If you're not into this genre, that's OK because Laurie Halse Anderson has a young adult novel "Speak", about a teen holding a dangerous secret inside of her. I recommend it to any one who likes to know the real story. Each page offer funny and insightful drawing and summaries of famous women. When she was caught by the British, she fooled them into thinking she was a man!). Take that Paul Revere!) and Deborah Champion (Who smuggled messages and money to George Washington. Soon we learn about Sybil Luddington (Who rode over 40 miles to alert nearly 400 minutemen of British attack. The plot line opens when a group of girls jump onto stage. Its starts out with a school play, where students are busily preparing to preform. From the New York Times best selling author Laurie Halse Anderson and Illustrator Matt Faulkner comes Independent DAMES, a book dedicated to "What you never knew about the women and girls of the revolution." We never think about them because we never learn about them. We've all written papers about George Washington, Sam Adams, or Thomas Paine, but did we ever stop to think about about the women who literally kept this new nation from falling through the cracks? No. Sure, we've all sat through countless years of social studies to learn all about the American Revolution.
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