Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote

Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote

Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote

Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote

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Overview

Elizabeth Cady Stanton stood up and fought for what she believed in. From an early age, she knew that women were not given rights equal to men. But rather than accept her lesser status, Elizabeth went to college and later gathered other like-minded women to challenge the right to vote.Here is the inspiring story of an extraordinary woman who changed America forever because she wouldn't take "no" for an answer.

Elizabeth Leads the Way is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

This title has Common Core connections.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780312602369
Publisher: Square Fish
Publication date: 02/16/2010
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 32
Sales rank: 132,690
Product dimensions: 8.30(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.20(d)
Lexile: AD700L (what's this?)
Age Range: 6 - 10 Years

About the Author

TANYA LEE STONE has written several books for young readers, including the young adult novel A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl. She lives in Vermont.

REBECCA GIBBON
is the illustrator of several picture books, including Players in Pigtails. She studied illustration at the Royal College of Art, and lives in England.

Table of Contents

"Animated and energized." — Publishers Weekly

"This well-conceived introduction is just right for a young audience." — School Library Journal

"A fine introduction for very young readers to the woman and her key role in American History." — Kirkus

* "A must for library shelves." — Booklist, starred review

"Graceful tribute." — Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Reading Group Guide

Discussion Questions

1. Has anyone ever told you that you couldn't do something? How did you react?

2. How was life better for boys when Elizabeth was young? Do you think that is still true to today? Why or why not?

3. If a woman's husband died during this time period, what might be that woman's fate?

4. How did Elizabeth prove that she could do anything boys could do?

5. What does the author mean when she says, "Elizabeth wasn't interested in easy?" Are you interested in easy? Why or why not?

6. Compare Elizabeth's life to most other young women. Why did she decide to do things differently?

7. Why do you think Elizabeth liked Henry Stanton? What do you think is most important about becoming friends with someone else?

8. What did Elizabeth like about being married? What was not much fun?

9. What was the "one thing that could change everything?" How does Elizabeth work to make it come true?
10. Why do you think "word of the meeting spread like wildfire" across the country? Why was this so important to so many people? Why do you think so many were against the idea?

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