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It Can't Be Done, Nellie Bly!: A Reporter's Race Around the World
Nancy Butcher

Peachtree Jr, 2003 - 144 pages

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The true story of a courageous woman's famous journey in 1889 that took her all the way around the globe in record time NELLIE BLY WAS A NEWSPAPER REPORTER for the New York World in the late nineteenth century. But instead of writing about "ladylike" subjects like tea parties and charity balls, Nellie wrote about the social problems of her day: poor job conditions, dilapidated housing, and dishonest politicians. Many people objected to the things she wrote about. But Nellie Bly was unstoppable. If someone told her "It can't be done, Nellie Bly," she went right ahead and did it anyway. But when Nellie reads Jules Verne's novel, Around the World in Eighty Days, she is inspired to circle the globe even faster herself. Now everyone wonders if this time the plucky young reporter has gone too far. Young readers will cheer for Nellie as she embarks on her 22,000-mile trip equipped only with one sturdy travel dress and a small satchel, and a pet monkey she picks up in Singapore as her traveling companion. Traveling by ship, train, and foot, she has all kinds of incredible experiences-from surviving a monsoon at sea to visiting a leper colony in China. Here is the true story of a woman with an indomitable spirit and love of adventure whose amazing journey will inspire a new generation of young readers.


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Around the World in 78 Days -- a review by Maddy, age 9

"Most people would probably panic if they had only three days to get ready for a trip around the world. So much packing to do! So many details to arrange!" Nellie Bly, a female reporter from The World Magazine in New York, sets off to beat Phileas Fogg's record of going around the world in eighty days, and aims for 78. She boards the Augusta Victoria with her one little bag, promising The World she will send back cables of her trip. She glides gently on the Augusta Victoria to London, not knowing she has competition. Will she make it?

Nellie Bly's thrilling adventure is both educational and fasinating. Nellie Bly has great ambition and is breathtaking to read about. She is different from other women. She is brave and fair, tough but understanding. She travels the world, picking up culture along the way, with only one bag. How does she do it? She was one of the only female reporters then, and is a very interesting choice to write about. This book is so enjoyable to read it is hard to put down. A definite thumbs up.


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