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Susie King Taylor was born a slave in 1848, but learned to read and secret schools. She taught others to read and write, and served as a laundress, nurse, and teacher with an Army troop of African-American soldiers. Taylor's own words are supplemented by facts about the events she witnessed, the people she met, and the places to which she traveled.
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2021.
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"Around the clock, across the country, ... highly skilled and compassionate men and women sacrifice and struggle for us and our families. You have never heard their true stories. Not like this. From big-city and small-town hospitals. From behind the scenes. From the heart. This book will make you laugh, make you cry, make you understand. When we're at our worst, E.R. nurses are at their best"--Dust jacket flap.
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[2020]
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Depicted in eight distinct vignettes, Six Funerals and a Wedding tells the often heartbreaking, often touching story of Mary Odgers, a woman whose life is punctuated by profound tragedy, yet also by profound gifts, heartening insight, and hard-won wisdom, after the loss of six entities she deeply loved.
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2022
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NCSS / CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 3-5 2023
Texas Topaz Nonfiction Gems 2023 (Gr. 3-5)
Women's History - Tweens
Texas Topaz Nonfiction Gems 2023 (Gr. 3-5)
Women's History - Tweens
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This powerful tribute to Civil War nurse Clara Barton and her heroic efforts during the Battle of Antietam reveals how she came to be called "The Angel of the Battlefield," and recounts her journey to become one of our country's greatest humanitarians and the founder of the American Red Cross.
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2013.
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"Louisa May Alcott is best known for penning Little Women, but few are aware of the experience that influenced her writing most-her time as a nurse during the Civil War. Caring for soldiers' wounds and writing letters home for them inspired a new realism in her work. When her own letters home were published as Hospital Sketches, she had her first success as a writer. The acclaim for her new writing style inspired her to use this approach in Little...
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2016.
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"Heroines of Mercy Street tells the true stories of the nurses at Mansion House, the Alexandria, Virginia, mansion turned war-time hospital and setting for the new PBS drama Mercy Street. Among the Union soldiers, doctors, wounded men from both sides, freed slaves, politicians, speculators, and spies who passed through the hospital in the crossroads of the Civil War, were nurses who gave their time freely and willingly to save lives and aid the wounded....
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2015.
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Practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites readers to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day on a hospital cancer ward. In her skilled hands, as both a dedicated nurse and an insightful chronicler of events, we are given an unprecedented view into the individual struggles as well as the larger truths about medicine in this country, and by the end of the shift, we have...
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