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History Smashers: Women's Right to Vote Paperback – July 7, 2020

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Myths! Lies! Secrets! Smash the stories behind famous moments in history and expose the hidden truth. Perfect for fans of I Survived and Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales.

In 1920, Susan B. Anthony passed a law that gave voting rights to women in the United States. RIGHT?

WRONG! Susan B. Anthony wasn't even alive when the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified. Plus, it takes a lot more than one person to amend the constitution.

The truth is, it took millions of women to get that amendment into law. They marched! They picketed! They even went to jail. But in the end, it all came down to a letter from a state representative's mom. No joke.

Through illustrations, graphic panels, photographs, sidebars, and more, acclaimed author Kate Messner smashes history by exploring the little-known details behind the fight for women's suffrage.

Don't miss History Smashers: The Mayflower!

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July 7, 2020
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Praise for the History Smashers series:

"Critical, respectful, engaging: exemplary history for children." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"The book’s format may be a good match for those with shorter attention spans, and permits it to be gratifyingly capacious in what it covers." --New York Times Book Review

"Well-researched, entertaining, and packed with facts." --Booklist

“Messner and Meconis provide a timely perspective on an important part of American history.” —School Library Journal

"A history book for middle-graders that should be on everyone's (child and adult) to-read list." --Shelf Awareness

"Kate Messner serves up fun, fast history for kids who want the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Absolutely smashing!" —Candace Fleming, award-wining author

"Informative and fun, eye-opening and entertaining. I wish I could have read History Smashers when I was in elementary school. I would have devoured them and developed a big appetite for even more of this sort of truth-telling." --Chris Barton, award-winning author

About the Author

KATE MESSNER is passionately curious and writes books that encourage kids to wonder, too. Her titles include award-winning picture books, like Over and Under the Snow; novels, like Breakout and Chirp; the Fergus and Zeke easy reader series, and the popular Ranger in Time chapter books, and works of nonfiction with a focus on nature and history. Before becoming a full time writer, Kate was a TV journalist and National Board certified middle school English teacher. She lives on Lake Champlain with her family and is trying to summit all 46 Adirondack High Peaks in between book deadlines. Visit katemessner.com and Facebook: Kate Messner for more information and follow her on Twitter @katemessner.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House Books for Young Readers; Illustrated edition (July 7, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593120345
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593120347
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 8 - 12 years
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 950L
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 3 - 7
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.19 x 0.48 x 7.56 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #88,667 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #38 in Children's American History of 1800s
- #78 in Children's American History of 1900s
- #4,900 in History (Books)

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Kate Messner is passionately curious and writes books that encourage kids to wonder, too. Her titles include award-winning picture books like Over and Under the Rainforest, Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt, The Next President, and How to Read a Story; novels that tackle real-world issues like Chirp, Breakout, All the Answers, and The Seventh Wish; high-interest nonfiction like Tracking Pythons and the History Smashers series; the Fergus and Zeke easy readers; and the popular Ranger in Time chapter books about a time-traveling search and rescue dog.

Kate’s titles are frequently selected for One School, One Book and One School/One Author programs and other community-wide reads. Her books have been New York Times Notable, Junior Library Guild, IndieBound, and Bank Street College of Education Best Books selections. Her novel The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z. won the E.B. White Read Aloud Medal, and her science picture books have been finalists for the American Academy for the Advancement of Sciences/Subaru SB&F prize for excellence in science writing. In 2020, Kate was honored with New York’s Knickerbocker Award for creating a superior body of work supporting curriculum and educational goals.

Before becoming a full-time writer, Kate was a TV news reporter as well as a National Board Certified educator. She grew up in Medina, NY and graduated from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School with a degree in Broadcast Journalism. Kate spent seven years working as a television news producer and reporter in Syracuse, NY and Burlington, VT before going back to school to earn a master’s degree in education for secondary-level English Language Arts. She taught middle school language arts for fifteen years before leaving the classroom to write full time but still spends much of her time in schools, working with kids as a visiting author.

Kate lives on Lake Champlain with her family and is trying to summit all 46 Adirondack High Peaks in between book deadlines. Learn more at her website: www.katemessner.com and follow her on Twitter @katemessner.

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stewygirl

Fast-paced, and full of important information!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 19, 2020

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Reader: I teared up reading this book. I’m a 40-something yo woman and I teared up reading how persistent the women before me were for decades!

Such an important read for upper elementary students (and their parents!). To know how much of a fight it was to get the right to vote and how many incremental steps along the way mattered.

I’m buying this whole set for my 5th grader’s teacher so she can have it in her classroom library.

This is important reading!

For students, the conversational tone and illustrations will grab their attention along with the not-as-familiar facts.

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Denese Anderson

Fun way to learn about history!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 10, 2020

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This book is so good! It's full of information that is not traditionally taught in schools. I love the conversational writing style. It's full of illustrations, photos, comic panels, and interesting sidebars which make it very accessible to young readers. The author includes information about how amendments are added to our constitution, how Black people were treated (mistreated) during the process, and so much more. This is such a fun way to learn about history and I can't wait to read more from the series!

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Camille

A book for all ages.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 6, 2020

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It's important to know the history of women's right to vote. This book does a great job!

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Rinda Beach

This book is so well done! It's chock full of information

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 17, 2022

This book is so well done! It’s chock full of information. I was fascinated with the new things I learned. For instance, I thought all suffragettes had the same beliefs. They didn’t! Some believed ALL women should vote. Others thought only white women should.

Another example – the fight for the vote began with Abigail Adams. She tried talking to her husband, to her son. They both became president, but neither listened. It took until President Woodrow Wilson to get the 17th amendment passed, but it almost didn’t. It came down to one state, Tennessee. To one man and his vote, and a letter from his mother. It made all the difference.

Throughout the book there are short biographies of the famous, and not so famous. I loved the mix of people until I got to the most recent ones. That’s where the majority of names came from one party, from one side of the aisle. I wish the author had looked harder for names from the other side. For women like Nikki Hailey or Condoleezza Rice to name a few. They’re out there, working hard for the things they believe in.

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Lacks context, depth, and educational substance

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 16, 2022

I’m not in favor of the prevalent practice of white-washing history. Too many social studies textbooks are filled with everything from “creative” phrasing, blatant omissions, and even outright lies all to make our ancestors, leaders, and historical “heroes” come across as noble and with humanities best interest at heart. And while I think the goal here was to produce something on the women’s suffrage movement that rises above those practices, it misses the mark as much as it misses needed explanation of patriarchy and social change, concepts, to name a few, the text never addresses.

Instead of educating young readers ABOUT women’s right to vote, it seems to spend more time telling them how to FEEL TOWARDS those women. The book ostensibly contends that the suffrage movement was led by racists, bigots, and xenophobes who held back the movement’s goal. While I’m not discounting that some of the women during this time expressed views and sentiments not acceptable today, I did not feel that the book did the issues proper justice either nor did it include enough primary sources in full context, proper historical background, and discussion of social conditions. History does not happen in a bubble.

For the most part, this book just doesn’t adequately present, teach, or capture the women’s suffrage movement. And it definitely doesn’t inspire. In the place of relevant details and explanations is a heavy-handedness to the discussion of race. For example, when detailing the Wilson parade where there was disagreement about the position and participation of black women, the book remarks: “but like the rest of the movement, the event was marked by racism”(97). Young readers are presumably expected to view history through a modern lens because no historical context is provided. No mention that this event [the parade] is occurring 42 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus, 41 years before Brown vs. Board of Education, and almost 16 years before iconic Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. is even born! Some significant teaching moments are lost.

The narrative even goes as far as to blame the oppressed women for their own oppression! “Why weren’t things happening faster? Maybe it was time to stop being so proper and ladylike all the time. And maybe it was time to include more voices” chapter five naively and immaturely contends (85). Yes, the fight for voting rights was decades long and the women activists were not always a cohesive harmonious group of groups (they differed on strategies, ideologies, and priorities; it wasn’t always about race), but to suggest that they were impeding their own progress is a grave injustice that ignores not only the multitude of factors working against them including the white men who held all the real power, but also the fact that gender studies programs that deconstruct feminine ideals and words like “ladylike” were decades away!
Overall, the tone of the narrative is off-putting, riddled with finger pointing, bias, and name calling. Women pitted against women and white women pitted against black men creates a Jerry Springer kind of storytelling that ignores the real struggles they all faced and belittles the high stakes. Rarely does the narrative look beyond the surface and question who stood to gain from dividing two marginalized and disenfranchised minority groups that working together were a more formidable foe than separately. And thus, I got a strong sense that this narrative was trying to feed into divisiveness rather than help young readers understand it. If nothing else, it indulges in misdirection in many places and doesn’t always tell the whole story. And that lowers the academic value of the book. (As did the fact that in the “math” chapter it gets a noticeable date/timeline wrong.) There are just too many places where more substance and in-depth explanation is needed.

It’s also worth noting that the crude and unflattering illustrations (of women from Susan B. Anthony to Michelle Obama) that look more like caricatures despite the availability of photographs only further serves to diminish the seriousness of the issues and demean the women who worked so hard for young girls reading this book today to have rights and opportunities that didn’t exist not so long ago.
My daughter got this book as part of a summer reading program. Thankfully we have other books on the topic on our shelves to compensate. I can’t honestly recommend using this one. There are others out there that do a better job of presentation on the subject.

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L. J. Rinaldi

The history of the suffragist movement

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 15, 2020

Quick, when did the US pass the 19th Amendment and what does that Amendment do?

Yes, it has been 100 years since the US gave the right to vote to women, but not all women, of course, no that would be far too easy.

The way I was taught about this in school, back in the 60s and 70s, the right to vote was a gift to the women for their help in World War I, as though that was their reward for all the hard work they did.

Yeah right, as though the government every gave its citizens anything without a fight.

And this book gets into the nitty gritty of it all. We learn what racists these White women were who were first fighting for the end of slavery, and then turning around and saying that Black men should not get the right to vote before they did. Nor should Black women. Nor should recent immigrants who were less desirable, and from Eastern Europe. It is amazing how so many of these great women had such hatred in them.

This book, written at the middle-grade level is very clear on what was really going on, because history should not be so cleaned up that we miss the evils that our previous generations did. This book also covers the Black women who fought for voting rights, that are often ignored. Most people know about Susan B. Anthony, but how many know About Ida B. Wells.

And for those who wonder why the women in congress often dress in white when protesting things, it is because white was the color that the women suffragists wore when protesting.

Great book. Should be used in classrooms, if we ever have gatherings of students again. Highly recommended.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

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