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Banker, Grace Distinguished Service Medal (U.S.) Distinguished Service Medal (U.S.) Juvenile literature Telephone operators Telephone operators Juvenile literature United States. Army. Signal Corps Juvenile literature United States. Army. Signal Corps. World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918 Juvenile literature World War, 1914-1918 Women Juvenile literatureBecker, Helaine
Summary: "The most powerful pirate in history was a woman who was born into poverty in Guangzhou, China, in the early 1800s. When pirates attacked her town and the captain took a liking to her, she saw a way out. Zheng Yi Sao agreed to marry him only if she got an equal share of his business. When her husband died six years later, she took command of the fleet. Over the next decade, the pirate queen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2020
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Summary: "Led by twenty-five-year-old Grace Banker, thirty-two telephone operators -- affectionately called Hello Girls back in the US -- became the first female combatants in World War I. Follow Grace Banker's journey from her busy life as a telephone switchboard trainer in New York to her pioneering role as the Chief Operator of the 1st Unit of World War I telephone operators in the battlefields of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2021