Works by Sue Macy
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) (2012) 279 copies
A Whole New Ball Game: The Story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (1993) 116 copies
The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come (2019) — Author — 108 copies
Basketball Belles: How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women's Hoops on the Map (2011) 105 copies
Trudy's Big Swim: How Gertrude Ederle Swam the English Channel and Took the World by Storm (2017) 49 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1955-05-13
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Clifton, New Jersey, USA
- Education
- Princeton University
- Occupations
- children's book author
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Reviews
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to… by Sue Macy
Entertaining and fun this book looks at how bicycles changed the way women related to society. Lots of pictures and sidebars.
Fascinating introduction to Nellie Bly's work, independence, and spirit. The pictures work well and the format well constructed. National Graphic has published a number of excellent books for a tween audience.
Over the last forty years, Aaron Lansky has jumped into dumpsters, rummaged around musty basements, and crawled through cramped attics. He did all of this in pursuit of a particular kind of treasure, and he's found plenty. Lansky's treasure was any book written Yiddish, the language of generations of European Jews. When he started looking for Yiddish books, experts estimated there might be about 70,000 still in existence. Since then, the MacArthur Genius Grant recipient has collected close to 1.5 million books, and he's finding more every day. Told in a folkloric voice reminiscent of Patricia Polacco, this story celebrates the power of an individual to preserve history and culture, while exploring timely themes of identity and immigration.… (more)
Great story and information about the Yiddish language and Jewish culture. It's a bit too long to find it super duper engaging.....but that's alright.
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Awards
The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come (3-5 – 2020)
Trudy's Big Swim: How Gertrude Ederle Swam the English Channel and Took the World by Storm (Third to Fifth Grade – 2018)
Motor Girls: How Women Took the Wheel and Drove Boldly Into the Twentieth Century (Sixth to Eighth Grade – 2018)
Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber (Kindergarten to Second Grade – 2017)
Trudy's Big Swim: How Gertrude Ederle Swam the English Channel and Took the World by Storm (Selection – 2018)
Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber (Selection – Early Readers–Nonfiction – 2017)
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- Works
- 21
- Members
- 1,354
- Popularity
- #18,991
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 104
- ISBNs
- 72