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Dare the Wind
by Tracey Fern
Illustrator: Emily Arnold McCully
Ages: 9+
Published: 2014
Publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux BFYR/Macmillan
ISBN: 978-0-374-31699-0
Keywords: Mathematics, Science, Read-Aloud, Women
In 1851 Eleanor Prentiss navigated a clipper ship from New York City to San Francisco in record time, reading the sea and daring the wind. Watercolor illustrations. Maps and glossary.