When I was in elementary school, the highlight of my week was the Scholastic Books flyer. My mom let me pick ONE book each week, which was always a source of much internal debate. Not many of those books have stuck with me all these years, but one that did was a biography of Nellie Bly.Nellie Bly was a small-town girl (like me!) who became independent by writing for newspapers in a time when ...
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Published on March 13, 2011 08:17