Seven Brave Women

Seven Brave Women by Betsy Hearne is a really cool book about seven women related to the narrator of the story. The story is told by a young girl; she describes her great great great grandmothers down to herself. The story empowers women and would be a great book to use if students were starting research on their families. A teacher could use the book to concentrate on females in the girls families, males in the boys families, or you could easily research and be proud of both gender members of the students families. The book was also set up as a chapter book as a picture book. Each page was a new chapter which I liked because it represented the chapters of the narrators ancestors.