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Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors?: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell

Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors?: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell Hardcover - 2013

by Stone, Tanya Lee

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In the 1830s, when a girl named Elizabeth Blackwell was growing up, women were supposed to be wives and mothers. Career options were few. Certainly no women were doctors. But Elizabeth refused to accept the common beliefs that women weren't smart enough to be doctors. Illustrations.

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Henry Holt & Company, 2013. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors?: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell
  • Author Stone, Tanya Lee
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 40
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Henry Holt & Company
  • Date 2013
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0805090487I3N00
  • ISBN 9780805090482 / 0805090487
  • Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.24 x 8.81 x 0.38 in (28.55 x 22.38 x 0.97 cm)
  • Ages 05 to 08 years
  • Grade levels K - 3
  • Reading level 560
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1919
    • Sex & Gender: Girl's Interest
    • Topical: Girl's Interest
  • Library of Congress subjects Women physicians - United States, Blackwell, Elizabeth
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011043528
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Booklist, 01/01/2013, Page 102
  • Horn Book Magazine, 03/01/2013, Page 138
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/2013, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 12/15/2012, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/04/2013, Page 0
  • School Library Journal, 02/01/2013, Page 96

About the author

Tanya Lee Stone loves to write about women pushing boundaries where no woman has before, in books like Elizabeth Leads the Way, Almost Astronauts, and now Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors? Her work has received such accolades as the ALA Robert F. Sibert Award, SCBWI Golden Kite Award, Bank Street's Flora Steiglitz Straus Award, and the Jane Addams Children's Book, Boston Globe-Horn Book, and NCTE Orbis Pictus honors.

Marjorie Priceman has twice received Caldecott Honors, one for her illustrations in Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin! and one for Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride, which she both wrote and illustrated. She lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.