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    Reaching the Stars: Poems about Extraordinary Women and Girls
    Reaching the Stars: Poems about Extraordinary Women and Girls
    Reaching the Stars: Poems about Extraordinary Women and Girls
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    Reaching the Stars: Poems about Extraordinary Women and Girls

    By Jan Dean and Michaela Morgan

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    This feisty collection of poems is a celebration of the achievements of women and girls throughout history.

    Reaching the Stars is complied by national Poetry ADay Ambassadors and includes poems about Malala Yousafzai, Rosa Parks, Margaret Hamilton, Ada Lovelace, Helen Keller, Mary Shelley, Edith Cavell and many more.

    Packed with wonderfully diverse poems, this is the perfect gift for young history or poetry fans.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPan Macmillan
    Release dateMar 9, 2017
    ISBN9781509814299
    Reaching the Stars: Poems about Extraordinary Women and Girls
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    Jan Dean

    Jan Dean lives near Manchester, but spends as much time as possible in East Devon. She enjoys lots of messy stuff - painting, gluing, digging holes in the garden and making bread. She likes earrings and often wears an enormous pair of giraffes (or penguins) when she visits schools to perform her poetry and write with classes. She is the author of The Penguin in Lost Property.

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