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This is a great historical fiction novel in verse about a girl who immigrated to the U.S. and then became a union organizer for the women working in garment factories. It‘s based on the early life of Clara Lemlich.

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Taco salad for supper and a new read! This book sounded great the first time I read about it, and it has been on my TBR for a while. I‘m finally starting it this weekend so it can go back on my class bookshelf as school starts.

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You were right, @BucklingBookshelves. This is a wonderful book! A novel in verse about Clara Lemlich, one of the first to fight for rights for women workers in early 1900s New York City. What a courageous woman she was, and what a beautiful way to tell her story. Thanks for the recommendation!

Day 2 - #Audacity #QuotsyMay19

WOW. Beautifully written. Love #novelsinverse and Melanie Crowder did such a wonderful job really getting into the story. It felt so real. I was hopeless and angry right along with Clara.

"That is all.
So simple.
The truth often is."'

January IRL book club selection was my pick! I finished this YA novel-in-verse on Wednesday and loved it. Historical fiction about an amazing woman — a young girl at the time, really — in the labor movement who I had not heard of previous to this book. Heartbreaking, but hopeful. What an inspiration. #boutofbooks

"I will surely choose a man who wants a thinking wife."

I'm re-reading to prepare to present next week on this book and on the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. I think the Wellers and water is totally helping. Cheers, Littens!

I just flipped through the front of my $4 online purchase when I made my last post...only to discover this book is actually #signed. I'm so pumped! The seller never mentioned this! Day. Made.

I'm using this book for a presentation I'm working on for Women's History Month in march and this passage.."searching for scraps of fabric or thread or dignity" is a big reason why. I'll be discussing the fight for working women's rights in turn of the century NYC in relation to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. "Audacity" is inspired by the true story of Clara Lemlich, a Russian Jewish immigrant whose fight for her rights is so powerful.

Read with my daughter. Powerful and inspiring. My daughter told me she thought the use of poetry to tell the story so much more powerful because she could feel every word was full of meaning. I have to agree.

Easy to read yet entirely gripping and thought provoking.

Ambitious & moving, the author tells the story of Clara, a young girl facing the persecution of Jews in Russia, and the plight of the working immigrants in NYC sweatshops. I almost bailed when I saw it was written in free verse, but I'm so glad I didn't. It's remarkable how powerful this work is and how touching. I was moved to tears. "She leave us...w/ a challenge to see the suffering of others as a part of ourselves & to do something about it."

Such a powerful line about workers in the garment industry at the turn of the century, subjected to getting felt up by their bosses.

I tried to read while waiting for Owens football game to start, I really did...but it is so difficult to get into a book in free verse about the persecution of Jews in Russia while Xzibit blares "X gon' give it to ya!" Soooo loudly in the speakers.

Clara Lemlich reminds me a bit of my beloved Jane Eyre: intelligent, passionate, and determined to rise above her circumstances. She, too, is no bird. #24in48

Thought provoking about female roles in the home and in society. It is captured me from the beginning and I did not put it down.