Wheels of Change, Sue Macy
Wheels of Change, Sue Macy
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Wheels of Change
How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (with a Few Flat Tires Along the Way)

Author: Sue Macy

Narrator: Meredith Orlow

Unabridged: 2 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/15/2012

Synopsis

A finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award, Sue Macy's Wheels of Change offers young listeners an eye-opening account of how, beginning in the late 19th century, the bicycle helped change the course of women's history. Macy meticulously documents how women used the freedom of their newfound mobility to effect social change even in the face of constant challenges. ''A strong, high-interest choice for both classroom and personal reading- for adults, too.''- Booklist

Reviews

Goodreads review by Heidi on February 25, 2013

There are plenty of bright spots in this piece, like the forward written by World Bicycle Relief co-founder Leah Missbach Day and the graphic quality of photographs, advertisements, and illustrations; my rating relates to the sometimes unfriendly page breaks, placement of features, and the book's ov......more

Goodreads review by Betsy on May 03, 2011

A history book for kids can do any number of things. It can concentrate on a topic that has been well-documented in adult books, synthesizing and simplifying the text so that a 10-year-old could understand what is written there. Or it can do original research, never seen before on the adult page, cu......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on May 12, 2012

Wheels of Change was a finalist in the Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction category for YALSA-ALA in 2011. It uses blended-narrative form to reveal the impact that the bicycle has had on the lives of women. Women today take a lot of their freedoms for granted, but the bicycle was key in terms of bo......more

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