Giant Steps: Suffragettes and Soldiers

by Mary Blair Immel

Overview

As Giant Steps opens, thirteen-year-old Bernie Epperson of Lafayette, Indiana, is wrestling with double standards placed on her compared with her brothers. Soon her cousin awakens her to all the unfair restrictions women face, and Bernie becomes a suffragette. Meanwhile, World War I begins. Her family is devastated when her brothers become soldiers, and Bernie must decide how to help the war effort and continue to fight for women’s rights. While this story is fictional, the details of the suffrage movement and the war efforts of ordinary Americans are true. Middle and high school students will relate to Bernie and her brothers’ dilemmas a century ago because they also face making decisions in a turbulent world while sifting through contradictory news and changing wisdom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780871954091
Publisher:	Indiana Historical Society Press
Publication date:	04/25/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

With a master’s degree in U.S. history, Mary Blair Immel has taught at several grade levels. She is an award-winning storyteller and author, including Two-Way Street (1965), a Scholastic Books’ Teenage Book Club Selection, and the IHS Press book, Captured! A Boy Trapped in the Civil War (2006).

Table of Contents

Contents

Part 1 | 1916

Prologue

Chapter 1. June 1916 | Wrong Foot Forward

Chapter 2. Summer 1916 | An Unusual Turn of Events

Chapter 3. Summer 1916 | Disturbing Secrets

Chapter 4. August 1916 | Strange Doors Swing Open

Chapter 5. August and September 1916 | The Rocky Road to Fame

Chapter 6. October 1916 | Secrets and Scary Business

Chapter 7. November 1916 | Putting the Puzzle Together

Part 2 | 1917

Chapter 8. January 1917 | Serendipity

Chapter 9. January 1917 | Trouble Brewing

Chapter 10. March 1917 | “A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Step”

Chapter 11. March 1917 | Peace and Quiet?

Chapter 12. March 1917 | March Roars Out Like a Lion

Chapter 13. Spring and Summer 1917 | Dark Clouds Gather

Chapter 14. September 1917 | Nick Disappears

Chapter 15. October 1917 | Mother’s Secret

Part 3 | 1918 to 1920

Chapter 16. March to July 1918 | Ben Answers the Call

Chapter 17. July 1918 | An Unexpected Challenge

Chapter 18. August 1918 | Discord

Chapter 19. October 1918 | Mad Dog

Chapter 20. October 1918 | The Letter

Chapter 21. November 1918 to March 1919 | The Dinner Guest

Chapter 22. May 1920 | Surprises

Chapter 23. August 18, 1920 | Stepping Out

Afterword

Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Subject Index by Chapter