Wheels Of Change
  • Published: 11 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781426307614
  • Imprint: National Geographic
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $45.00

Wheels Of Change

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Sue Macy's book Bulls-Eye was a winner of the Texas Bluebonnet and sold more than 25,000 copies. She's a gifted biographer and history writer whose impeccable research on Women's History helps her dig deeper into her subjects than many other children's biographers.

Take a lively look at women's history from aboard a bicycle, which granted females the freedom of mobility and helped empower women's liberation. Through vintage photographs, advertisements, cartoons, and songs, Wheels of Change transports young readers to bygone eras to see how women used the bicycle to improve their lives. Witty in tone and scrapbook-like in presentation, the book deftly covers early (and comical) objections, influence on fashion, and impact on social change inspired by the bicycle, which, according to Susan B. Anthony, "has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world."

NCSS—Notable Social Studies Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2012

School Library Journal Best Books of 2011

Finalist YALSA Excellence in Non Fiction for Young Adults

SLJ’s 100 Magnificent Children’s Books of 2011

Amelia Bloomer List
  • Published: 11 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781426307614
  • Imprint: National Geographic
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the author

Sue Macy

SUE MACY is the author of FREEZE FRAME and SWIFTER, HIGHER, STRONGER, which received starred review from School Library Journal and Booklist. She lives in Englewood, NJ.

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Breaking Through
Basketball Belles
Roller Derby Rivals
Trudy's Big Swim
Motor Girls
Bull's Eye
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Praise for Wheels Of Change

Awards and Distinctions
Bulls-Eye
    * Best Books, 2001 (School Library Journal)
    * Notable Books for Children, 2002 (American Library Association)
    * Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2002 (Children's Book Council, Inc. and National Council for the Social Studies)
    * Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices, 2002 (University of Wisconsin)
    * 2001 Gold Medal for Non-Fiction (National Parenting Publications Association)
    * Children's Literature Choice List, 2002 (Children's Literature)
Girls Got Game
    * Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices, 2002 (University of Wisconsin)
    * Top 10 Sports Books for Youth (Booklist Magazine, September 1, 2001)
    * Amelia Bloomer List, 2002 (Feminist Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table, American Library Association)
    * Top 25 Books of 2001 (Peggy Sharp, Designs for Learning)