You Are a Star, Ruth Bader Ginsburg (You Are a Star)

by Dean Robbins (Author) Sarah Green (Illustrator)

You Are a Star, Ruth Bader Ginsburg (You Are a Star)
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
Series: You Are a Star

Make way for Ruth Bader Ginsburg! It's RBG like you've never seen her before!

Using a unique mix of first-person narrative, hilarious comic panels, and essential facts, Dean Robbins introduces young readers to an American trailblazer. The first book in an exciting new nonfiction series, You Are a Star, Ruth Bader Ginsburg focuses on Ruth's lifelong mission to bring equality and justice to all. Sarah Green's spot-on comic illustrations bring this icon to life, and engaging back matter instructs readers on how to be more like Ruth!

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Kirkus

A warm, informative, and entertaining biography of a pioneering scholar, lawyer, and judge.

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Praise for You Are a Star, Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

Can there be too many biographies of Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Robbins' contribution assures us the answer is no. ...Colorful and expressive. —Booklist

Conversational first-person narrative, inset graphics, fact boxes, and appealing illustrations combine to paint a well-rounded picture of Ruth Bader Ginsburg...A warm, informative, and entertaining biography of a pioneering scholar, lawyer, and judge. —Kirkus Reviews

Dean Robbins
Maithili Joshi is an illustrator and cover designer. She is the illustrator of the upcoming Tiny Jumper by Candy Dahil and The Rainbow Bangles by Thushanthi Ponweera. She lives in New York City.
Dean Robbins is a journalist and the author of the children's picture books Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass, Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing, and Miss Paul and the President: The Creative Campaign for Women's Right to Vote. His award-winning books have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews and have been praised in the New York Times and USA Today. Dean grew up idolizing Apollo astronauts and loved working with Alan Bean on The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon. Learn more at deanrobbins.net.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781338767667
Lexile Measure
720
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Publication date
February 20, 2022
Series
You Are a Star
BISAC categories
JNF007110 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists
JNF007120 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Women
JNF007070 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Political
Library of Congress categories
Biographies
United States
Women judges
Judges
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader

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