by Mary Blair Immel
Indiana Historical Society Press, 2017
eISBN: 978-0-87195-409-1 | Cloth: 978-0-87195-407-7 | Paper: 978-0-87195-406-0
Library of Congress Classification PZ7.I34Gi 2017

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.

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