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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Known for her extraordinary and record-breaking trip around the world and her undercover investigation of a mental institution, Nellie Bly was one of the first female investigative reporters in the United States and a pioneer in the field of journalism"--
2) Nellie Bly
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
"Nellie Bly was known as an investigative reporter, but what about before that? Find out what happened when Bly was younger, and what she did that made her famous later on"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Offers readers a captivating look into the race between journalists Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland as they compete to be the first person to travel around the globe in less than 80 days. Learn about how these female journalists broke barriers for women in the United States.
Author
Pub. Date
c2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Challenged with circling the world at the end of the nineteenth century, three very different adventurers--avid bicyclist Thomas Stevens, fearless reporter Nellie Bly, and retired sea captain Joshua Slocum--embark on epic journeys.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
On November 14, 1889, newspaper reporter Nellie Bly set out on the trip of a lifetime. Equipped with just one small bag of necessities, she planned to circle the globe in a mere 75 days. In a time of steamships, locomotives, and horse-drawn carriages, few thought she could do it. But bravery and determination carried her through. How did Bly complete her historic journey, and what is its enduring legacy? Find out in an easy-to-read graphic novel that...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
"Join two daredevil journalists, Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland, as they race against each other--and the ticking clock--to circle the globe in fewer than 80 days. And by any means possible--ship, train, even foot! Bly, energetic and scrappy, and Bisland, poetic and sophisticated, shared one common goal: to prove that women could not only travel the world but were just as curious, capable, and courageous as any man. Did it really matter who won...
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life of Nellie Bly who, as a "stunt reporter" for the New York World newspaper in the late 1800s, championed women's rights and traveled around the world faster than anyone ever had.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
"Profiled are 26 American women from the 18th through 21st centuries, who have made--or are still making--history as artists, writers, teachers, lawyers, or athletes. The women come from a variety of economic and ethnic backgrounds, and many had to overcome extreme hardships. One woman represents each alphabetical letter beginning with Angela Davis, an activist, teacher, and writer, and concludes with Zora Neale Hurston, an anthropologist and writer."--...
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
In 1888, a young, female reporter for New York World newspaper sets out to travel around the world in fewer than eighty days, while a Cosmopolitan magazine reporter tries to beat her to the goal.
14) Ten days a madwoman: the daring life and turbulent times of the original "girl" reporter, Nellie Bly
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1210L
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Nellie Bly, the pioneering journalist whose showy but substantive stunts skyrocketed her to fame"--
Nellie Bly had ambitious goals for a woman at the end of the nineteenth century, when the few female journalists were relegated to writing columns about cleaning or fashion. The journalistic stunt that skyrocketed her to fame was feigning insanity, being committed to the notorious asylum on Blackwell's Island, and writing a shocking...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 710L
Language
English
Description
Fictionalized accounts of the true stories of three people who made separate attempts to travel around the world in the late nineteenth century, including Thomas Stevens, who made the journey on a bicycle, reporter Nellie Bly, who used conventional methods of travel, and sea captain Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail around the world alone.
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