Independent Dames: What You Never Knew About the Women and Girls of the American Revolution

This entertaining, informative, and long overdue homage to the female fighters in the American Revolution by acclaimed novelist and picture-book author Laurie Halse Anderson and charismatic illustrator Matt Faulkner features page after page of superbly researched information and thoughtfully detailed illustrations. Text is broken up to asides and sidebars that can be read according to interest and reading level.