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Imogene's Last Stand
Meet Imogene, a plucky heroine with a passion for history.
As a baby, Imogene's first words were “Four score and seven years ago.” In preschool, she fingerpainted a map of the Oregon Trail. So it’s not surprising that when the mayor wants to tear down the long-neglected Liddleton Historical Society to make room for a shoelace factory, Imogene is desperate to convince the to...more
As a baby, Imogene's first words were “Four score and seven years ago.” In preschool, she fingerpainted a map of the Oregon Trail. So it’s not surprising that when the mayor wants to tear down the long-neglected Liddleton Historical Society to make room for a shoelace factory, Imogene is desperate to convince the to...more
Hardcover, 40 pages
Published
October 13th 2009
by Schwartz & Wade
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Imogene Tripp is a little girl who loves history and often quotes famous people from history. Her first words were "Four score and seven years ago". So when Imogene discovers the neglected and abandoned Liddleville Historical Society she immediately sets about restoring the old building and its contents. But when Imogene opens the doors, no one comes. No one cares. Then Imogene learns that the building is to be torn down to make way for a shoelace factory. She tries to rally the town to protest...more
History is everything to young Imogene Tripp. For a girl whose first words came from the Gettysburg address, putting the neglected Liddleville Historical Society in order is a dream come true. At least, it was until the day a sign goes up announcing the Society's imminent destruction in favor of a shoestring factory. Imogene launches a one girl crusade to save her museum with a little help from her parents. Nothing helps until she discovers an important document inside the Society. Can she stall...more
That Imogene, she's going to grow up Geek Like Me. She loves history and she loves her country, and in the process of saving her beloved local historical society from the wrecking ball, she demonstrates all the best protest strategies - gradually raising community awareness of her issue via public speech, canvassing, leafletting, a rally, and finally a sit-in. All the while she spouts her favorite quotes from American history, from "Balderdash" (Teddy Roosevelt) to "Ain't nobody comin'" (Davy Cr...more
Imogene Tripp loves history so much that her first words as a baby were "Four score and seven years ago." She helps restore the Liddleville Historical Society, but to her disappointment, nobody visits. Then she learns the Mayor has ordered the building torn down and plans to put a shoelace factory in its place. Taking to the streets, Imogene launches a one woman campaign, blanketing the town with flyers and crying ala Paul Revere "the bulldozers are coming!" but nobody listens. "The shoelace fac...more
Any book that includes inspiring quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr., William Morris, Chief Joseph, and Eleanor Roosevelt on its endpapers makes me sit up and take notice. Readers will quickly discover that these quotes are sayings that provide inspiration for Imogene, the book's determined heroine. A lover of history, Imogene engages in a fruitless battle against the authorities as she tries to save Liddleville, New Hampshire's historical society from being razed in order to put up a shoelace f...more
Published in 2009 by Schwartz & Wade
Interest Level: 3rd-6th Grade
Imogene is a girl who loves history. She lives and breathes history. She even is able to quote important figures in history. As she endeavors to save the local historical society, she finds that she is not alone and that her love of history is beyond the boundaries of a textbook.
I truly enjoyed this picture book that began with end-papers that had information about important figures in American history. Although the characteriz...more
Interest Level: 3rd-6th Grade
Imogene is a girl who loves history. She lives and breathes history. She even is able to quote important figures in history. As she endeavors to save the local historical society, she finds that she is not alone and that her love of history is beyond the boundaries of a textbook.
I truly enjoyed this picture book that began with end-papers that had information about important figures in American history. Although the characteriz...more
Imogene Tripp is a born and bred history buff. Her first words were "Four Score and Seven Years Ago" and from there all she would eat, think, and breathe was history. All of her attention is now focused on saving the towns historical society house. She cleans the place up and gets it all ready for tours, but nobody comes. Soon, she finds out that the house is going to be torn down to make a shoelace factory.....but not if she has anything to do with it!! All week she schemes and begs people to c...more
I really enjoyed Imogene, especially the little quips from historical personages that pepper her speech, but was a little annoyed at the confused messages about crossing gender role boundaries in both the text and the pictures. While the book seems to be very pro-liberated-woman, some of the little subconscious things seem to be popping back up such as portraying all of the construction workers as male and instead of having Imogene's actions directly save the Historical Society, instead it is sa...more
Imogene's Last Stand is a book you want to read aloud to your students. A young girl named Imogene ,who happens to be quite a history-buff, stands up for what she believes in, and doesn't back down! Fleming's humor and incorporation of United State's history makes the book entertaining not only for children, but for adults as well.
Nancy Carpenter rendered the illustrations in pen, ink, and digital media. Each end page has historical "tidbits" in which Carpenter makes small pictures of each hist...more
Nancy Carpenter rendered the illustrations in pen, ink, and digital media. Each end page has historical "tidbits" in which Carpenter makes small pictures of each hist...more
Imogene Tripp is a young history buff who is fighting to save the museum in the Liddleville Historical Society. She uses her cleverness, wit, and knowledge of history to show the townspeople the importance of preserving history for future generations. Things are not looking good for Imogene and the Historical Society until a very special person joins her cause.
IMOGENE'S LAST STAND is a fun book that will inspire young readers learn more about history and to take a stand for what they believe. Na...more
IMOGENE'S LAST STAND is a fun book that will inspire young readers learn more about history and to take a stand for what they believe. Na...more
Imogene is a little girl who loves all things historical. One of her favorite pastimes is quoting famous Americans, and her great knowledge of historical figures helps her when the historical society's building in her town is about to be bulldozed. With the help of her father, Imogene tries everything to get the attention of the townspeople and mayor, but to no avail. She finally stages a peaceful protest on the front steps and gains the attention of a very important American who helps her save...more
MY OPINION: IS THAT I LIKE THIS BOOK.
MY BOOKS GENRE IS: HISTORICAL FICTION.
MY QUICK RETELLING: IN THE BEGINNING IMOGENE AND HER DAD WHERE ALL THREW LIDDLEVILLE LOOKING FOR THE LIDDLEVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
IN THE MIDDLE, THEY WENT INSIDE THE LIDDLEVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND THEY CLEANED AND FIXED THE PHOTOGRAPHS, FOSSILS, ARROWHEADS AND THE FOUR-POSTER.
IN THE END, THEY WERE TRYING TO DESTROY THE BUILDING BUT IMOGENE SAVED EVERYTHING.
MY SCHEMA IS THAT IMOGENE TRIED TO SAVE THE HISTORICAL SO...more
MY BOOKS GENRE IS: HISTORICAL FICTION.
MY QUICK RETELLING: IN THE BEGINNING IMOGENE AND HER DAD WHERE ALL THREW LIDDLEVILLE LOOKING FOR THE LIDDLEVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
IN THE MIDDLE, THEY WENT INSIDE THE LIDDLEVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND THEY CLEANED AND FIXED THE PHOTOGRAPHS, FOSSILS, ARROWHEADS AND THE FOUR-POSTER.
IN THE END, THEY WERE TRYING TO DESTROY THE BUILDING BUT IMOGENE SAVED EVERYTHING.
MY SCHEMA IS THAT IMOGENE TRIED TO SAVE THE HISTORICAL SO...more
If you are teaching grade 5 students civil rights or civil disobedience, this book would be a good introduction although the narrator is really imitating what adults do when demonstrating against a policy they disagree with. Nancy Carpenter's pen-and-ink sketches create an energetic Imogene that goes well with the text. At first I thought Carpenter used watercolor but I think her color is done digitally. She's a graphic artist. Does anyone know?
I think the text of Sparrow Girl by Sara Pennypack...more
I think the text of Sparrow Girl by Sara Pennypack...more
Jun 14, 2011
Charlyn Trussell
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommended to Charlyn by:
Texas Bluebonnet Award Reading List 2011-12
Candace Fleming perfectly pegs famous historical quotations to a storyline about a feisty little girl named Imogene who tries to bring the importance of its history to a small New Hampshire town. She stages a one-girl battle to keep an ill-kept historical museum from destruction. Nancy Carpenter's illustrations echo the historic stance from Imogene's pose on a cannon to her ride on a velocipede or accompanying her father on a biplane. Notes about the historical figures Imogene quotes in the fron...more
Imogene Tripp is a history nerd after my own heart. First of all, the girl has an encyclopedic knowledge of quotes by famous figures in American history. My affection for her became clear when, while attempting to the stop destruction of her town's historical society for the construction of shoelace factory, she gallops around town on a hobby horse in her Paul Revere costume, shouting "The bulldozers are coming! The bulldozers are coming!" It was cemented when she locked herself up in the stocks...more
Imogene is a girl after my own heart - she loves history and old things. She mounts a campaign to save the town's history before the oldest house in town is bulldozed to make way for a shoelace factory. After trying all kinds of things to get the town to take notice of the history they are about to lose, she only succeeds when she finds a document proving George Washington slept in the house, thereby giving it historical importance. I thought that was a cop-out. I wish Imogene could have gotten...more
Mar 12, 2010
Sarah
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
children-s-books,
p-historical-fiction
I LOVED this book, even with its improbable ending. Imogene loves history, and is frequently wont to use quotes from historical people to make her points. Unfortunately, she is not able to get anyone else interested in her passion, which becomes a problem when her renovated historical society is threatened to be torn down to build a shoelace factory. Imogene makes a surprise discovery about the house, and then has the courage to stand up and make people wait and listen. It is an improbable but f...more
Ami me encantoeste libro fantaciarialistica.Por que la nina le encantaba la istoria de los Estados Unidos des de que era una bebe la nina cresio y cuando ella estaba en quider des cuvio una casa de inmortales y abrio un museo de istoria y pusieron su pueblo en el mapa.Mi esquema es la nina cuando era bebe legusto una cosa como yo cuando era bebe.Mi pregunta es como sabia la nina la istoria de Estados Unidos cuando era bebe.Yo le recomiendo este libro a las personas que le gustan los libros fanta...more
Jul 06, 2011
Susie
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
3-6 grades
Shelves:
texas-bluebonnet,
children-s-picture
"Enamored of history, young Imogene Tripp tries to save her town's historical society from being demolished in order to build a shoelace factory." Imogene is quite the determined young historian as she sets the tone of the situation with quotes from historical figures dressed in the appropriate pieces. My favorites: Davy Crockett "Ain't nobody comin'", Theodore Roosevelt "Balderdash", Chief Joseph "My heart is sick and sad", Viet Nam protestors "Heck no, I won't go", and President Martin Van Bur...more
Oct 20, 2011
Josselin D
added it
I like this historical fiction book. It is about a girl namedImogene and ther'es this house ands the mayor want's to replace it for a shoelace factory. Imogene want's to stop them. I'll remember that history is important in life. My question is that isn't the mayor smarter by saying the words "Who cares about history"? My schema is that in school my classmates and I learn about history. I'll recomend this book to Ms.Juan because it's interesting and because it's about history plus Ms.Juan likes...more
Imogene is a history buff! She helps her dad at the local historical society, but it becomes threatened when the mayor and the town want a shoelace factory built on the very location of the historical society. Imogene tries to rally the citizens of her fair town to her cause, but no one is convinced. Then one day while inside...moments before the demolition crew arrrives, Imogene discovers a piece of history...a letter from George Washington - the 1st president of the United States of America!
My pinion of the book is that i like it.The book is historical ficion.The book is about a girld who moved in a house and she didn't want some guys to destory the house.She loved it and put decorations.The house was imporant because George Washinton slep there.My shema is that like i live on aparments am gone moved in i dont want anyone to take that place.My question is why she didn't want to leave the house to be destyed?I recommend the book to my family cause they think the same as me.
An adorable story for history buffs. Imogene is a young girl who grew up with a great love the past and is now dedicated to saving her town's historical society from being torn down to make way for a shoelace factory.
Other reviews point out that some of Imogene's actions are unrealistic - for example, it's unlikely that a child as young as Imogene could refinish a four-poster bed alone and so quickly - but I actually enjoyed this story and its message that everyone has a part in protecting our...more
Other reviews point out that some of Imogene's actions are unrealistic - for example, it's unlikely that a child as young as Imogene could refinish a four-poster bed alone and so quickly - but I actually enjoyed this story and its message that everyone has a part in protecting our...more
Imogene loves history. In fact, her first words were: "Four score and seven years ago." She has to figure out how to save the Liddleville Historical Society, despite the fact that no one in her town is as interested in history as she is. She uses historical quotes extensively, which should be cute but came off as just pretentious. An explanation and historical context for the quotes she uses is given on the endpapers. I wanted to like this, but it was just a bit too much.
So you're going to knock down the local historical society to build a shoelace factory (it'll put the town on the map!)? Huh. Look out. Imogene's making her stand.
Entirely dig that Imogene is baby Leslie Knope.
4th-6th grade, mostly because it's a little longer for young grades and that's about when they'll start understanding some of the references. Not going to get all of them, but hey there teacher/librarian/parent, how about a little research project?
Entirely dig that Imogene is baby Leslie Knope.
4th-6th grade, mostly because it's a little longer for young grades and that's about when they'll start understanding some of the references. Not going to get all of them, but hey there teacher/librarian/parent, how about a little research project?
MY opinion of this book is that i like it becuse its about a girl that likes history.ITS about a girl that likes history sence she was a baby they fond a house of history and they whant to nock it down but she stoped him.how did she like history sence a baby?I recomand this book to bianca becuas she likes history ficition.THIS remands me of wen i help my mom clin a hoses.THIS book is history fiction.
I LOVED this book! It is GENIUS! The author has weaved the story of a spunky little girl who refuses to be daunted by the undertaking of what many view as an "impossible" project and some of America's most famous quotes and created a story that is inspiring, educational, fun, and heart warming. My children loved learning about the different quotes, who said them, and why...and I loved the message of being able to do anything you set your mind to. Great book!
I love this nook because its about a girl name Imogenes when she was a little girl she learn history.Imogenes was saving the house because it was going to be torn down.This book is Historical Fiction.My opinion of the book is that when she learn all the history she got it from social studies and when am her ill do the same thing.I want to recommend this book to Ana because i want her to know that Imogenes life.Why does Imogenes like to act the old days.
This is a fun (and somewhat cautionary tale) about preserving history and celebrating the lives of those who have gone before us. It's humorous and I love how Imogene uses quotes from famous people to make her point. The illustrations are terrific and we really enjoyed reading this book together. I love it when we can sneak a little history lesson into a story! And I love that it depicts the President as a woman of color.
Apr 21, 2011
Elizabeth S
rated it
3 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
history,
picture-books
A little girl, devoted to history, quotes some famous historical figure on just about every turn of the page. The pictures are well done. The bare story itself isn't really original. But overall it is still a fun book. I like that the end pages contain a little information about each of the quoted historical figures. Overall, the book may be a good way to introduce a grade-schooler to a variety of history topics.
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