Joan Dash, Author Scholastic $15.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-590-48409-1
Writing with a brio that does justice to the intrepid heroines of her book, Dash (The Triumph of Discovery: Four Nobel Women) serves up a colorful and perceptive account of the ILGWU strike that mobilized almost 30,000 garment factory workers in New
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Joan Dash, Author Polaris $5.99 (165p) ISBN 978-0-590-48410-7
""Dash brings a novelist's skill to her descriptions of Lower East Side streets,"" said PW of this ""colorful and perceptive"" account of a factory strike that ended in victory for maltreated female workers. Ages 10-up. (Jan.)r
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Joan Dash, Author, Dusan Petricic, Illustrator , illus. by Dusan Petricic. FSG/Foster $17 (256p) ISBN 978-0-374-30669-4
In this uneven biography, Dash (The Longitude Prize
; We Shall Not Be Moved
) explores Benjamin Franklin's evolution from scientist to diplomat before and during the Revolutionary War. The chapters devoted to science prove the most compelling,...
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Joan Dash, Author, Dusan Petricic, Illustrator Farrar Straus Giroux $17 (208p) ISBN 978-0-374-34636-2
Dash (We Shall Not Be Moved) pens an engrossing tale of the scientific contest for the Longitude Prize, which was offered through a 1714 act of the British Parliament in response to the devastating loss to the British navy of four battleships and...
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