The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba

The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to CubaDescription by Margarita Engle Paperback A powerful novel in verse about an early womens rights pioneer and the journey to Cuba that transformed her life. When Fredrika Bremer asked the Swedish Consulate to find her a quiet home in the Cuban countryside, she expected a rustic thatched hut, not this luxurious mansion in Matanzas, where Elena, the daughter of the house, can barely step foot outside. The freedom to roam is something that women and girls

the doughboy once more speaks in his own true voice

and pivotal historical events to redefine the way we look at our past and toward our future

Through personal interviews and excerpts from diaries

made from the fears of a generation ruined by war

Stevenson considers Germany's campaign of 'unrestricted' submarine warfare

by Blake Hoena | illustrated by Oliver Hurst

devastating year

by Michael Dorflinger

000 deaths (five times its total military fatalities in the war) while European deaths totaled over two million

the Germans knew they could not win the war and had sought a negotiated end to the fighting

the 1st Balloon Group

become elevated to a national symbol of Canadian identity