Book
The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba
- Published
- 2010
- Genre
- Biography
- Pages
- 151
- Words
- 8182
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 6.2
- AR interest level
- MG+ — upper middle grades, 6–8
- Lexile
- 1230L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 10–17
Draws on little-known Cuban history to tell a stirring story in poetry. Based on the diaries and letters of Swedish suffragist Fredrika Bremer, who spent three months in Cuba in 1851, the story focuses on oppressed women, the privileged as well as the enslaved, in three alternating free-verse narratives.
Collections
ALSC Notables
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780805090826
- ISBN-10
- 0805090827
Tags
ALSC NotablesBiographyCubaDiaries/Journals/Letters/Blogs-Diaries/Journals/Letters/Blogs (All)NonfictionPeople-Enslaved PeoplePeople-WomenPoetrySocial Issues-Gender EqualityVerse