Find this book at your library through WorldCat, at your Indy Bookstore, or via ReadingRockets https://www.readingrockets.org/authors/jan-annino.
I’m pleased to share that Blackwells, a venerable Oxford area UK shop offers the book book hardbound online with shipment to USA. See this url
Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, the subject of SHE SANG PROMISE, is honored in the Florida Women’s Hall of Fame & by her traditional singing recorded on two Smithsonian music CDs. She was a teen on her first day of Kindergarten, where she couldn’t read or write English. She became a path-setting nurse, newspaper editor, an author and a legendary storyteller for her people.
She served a U.S. President on an advisory committee.
In 1967, she was the first woman elected a leader of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. And, she also wrestled alligators.
SHE SANG PROMISE: The Story of Betty Mae Jumper, Seminole Tribal Leader from National Geographic Society 2010 ISBN 978.1.4263.0592.4She Sang Promise is recommended by Kirkus, School Library Journal, Children’s Literature, ReadingRockets.org , Reading is Fundamental, U.S. Library of Congress Book Festival & others.
It is listed by the American Library Association as a 2011 Amelia Bloomer Project Top 10 Book.
It is part of the Accelerated Reader program, although I hope your young reader is delving into many many books that aren’t part of AR.
For more, please see this glow page .
Recommended enrichment reading /viewing is tilted toward materials created by members of various Tribes in the U.S. & Canada/ Central & South America & Caribbean regions.
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