Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of DiscoveryA photobiography of the first wife of a president to have a public life and career of her own. |
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The year Eleanor turned fourteen she was allowed to attend Aunt Corinne's annual Christmas Party. She wasn't used to being with boys her own age, and the weekend event caused her "more pain than pleasure," she recalled.
The year Eleanor turned fourteen she was allowed to attend Aunt Corinne's annual Christmas Party. She wasn't used to being with boys her own age, and the weekend event caused her "more pain than pleasure," she recalled.
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Junior League members gave fund-raising parties to help finance the settlement houses, but a few debutantes wanted to do more than simply raise money. They volunteered for active work in the slums. Eleanor decided to join this group.
Junior League members gave fund-raising parties to help finance the settlement houses, but a few debutantes wanted to do more than simply raise money. They volunteered for active work in the slums. Eleanor decided to join this group.
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They hadn't seen each other since Aunt Corinne's Christmas party three years earlier. Franklin remembered Eleanor as a skinny girl in a hopeless party dress. Now she was wearing a stylish outfit from Paris. Tall but graceful, she had a ...
They hadn't seen each other since Aunt Corinne's Christmas party three years earlier. Franklin remembered Eleanor as a skinny girl in a hopeless party dress. Now she was wearing a stylish outfit from Paris. Tall but graceful, she had a ...
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| Títol | Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery Clarion nonfiction Newbery Honor Book |
| Autor | Russell Freedman |
| Col·laborador | Ted Hipple Young Adult Literature Collection |
| Edició | reimpresa |
| Editor | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0899198627, 9780899198620 |
| Nre. de pàgines | 198 pàgines |
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