Inspired by the real-life story of the Patterson family
befriended leading Israeli politicians like Prime Minister Menachem Begin
and the brave Virginia heiress Elizabeth Van Lew
1948: World War II may be over
Deftly articulated and beautifully illustrated by Lea Lyon
Carved in Ebony: Lessons From the Black Women Who Shape Us (Young Reader's Edition) Naomi Bagdonas Inspired by the real-life storyElizabeth Freeman, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Maria Fearing, Charlotte Forten Grimke, Sarah Mapps Douglass, Sara Griffith Stanley, Amanda Berry Smith, Lucy Craft Laney, Maria Stewart, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper These names may not be familiar, but each one of these women was a shining beacon of devotion in a world that did not value their lives. They worked to change laws, built schools, spoke to thousands, shared the Gospel around the world. And