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Audacity
by Melanie Crowder
Ages: 12+
Published: 2015
Publisher: Philomel Books/Penguin
ISBN: 978-0-399-16899-4
Keywords: Labor Movement, Polio, Immigration, Women's Rights
Clara Lemlich's story from life as a child in Russia through the immigrant experience, to labor activist in New York, is vividly told in verse. Includes historical notes and glossary.