Who Was Annie Oakley? (Who Was?)

by Stephanie Spinner (Author) Larry Day (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade
Series: Who Was?
Annie Oakley was the original power girl in an age when most women stayed home. During the late 19th century, Annie Oakley became a famous sharpshooter and daredevil horseback rider with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Illustrations.
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Gr 3-5 Annie Oakley was born Phoebe Ann Moses in 1860 in Ohio. Her life story is told here-from her fatherless childhood through her marriage to Frank Butler and glory days traveling with Buffalo Bill's show to her death, 18 days before her husband's, in 1926. "Little Sure Shot," as she was nicknamed by Sitting Bull, truly had a one-of-a-kind life. She raised herself up from a poor, abused baby-sitter to a sharpshooting show woman who enchanted Queen Victoria out of her post-Albert funk, no less. However, while her biography is presented in full here, the prose is rather dry and uninviting. The black-and-white cartoons that pad the book are no better. Although two time lines are appended, there is no index. Sue Macy's Bull's-Eye (National Geographic, 2001) is a wonderful photobiography of Oakley that will be far more helpful for reports and is more enjoyable reading.-Anne Chapman Callaghan, Racine Public Library, WI Copyright 2002 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
Stephanie Spinner
Stephanie Spinner is a full-time writer of children's books.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780448424972
Lexile Measure
870
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Publication date
February 18, 2002
Series
Who Was?
BISAC categories
JNF007020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Historical
JNF007060 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Performing Arts
JNF023000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Girls & Women
Library of Congress categories
United States
Frontier and pioneer life
Women entertainers
West (U.S.)
Oakley, Annie
Shooters of firearms
Wild west shows

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