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Binding: Perfect PaperbackEAN: 9780981710525 ISBN: 0981710522 Label: Forty-Sixth Star Press Manufacturer: Forty-Sixth Star Press Number Of Pages: 128 Publication Date: May 30, 2008 Publisher: Forty-Sixth Star Press Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Studio: Forty-Sixth Star Press Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The infamous flu pandemic of 1918 brought Oklahoma City to its knees. The heroic and selfless efforts of one woman, Felicia Daugherty, a society maiden who rallied an entire city in a victorious fight against the virus, resulted in untold saved lives. Daugherty is one of 10 Oklahoma heroes featured in a new book targeted at readers grade 3-11. The author is long-time Oklahoma City librarian Jana Hausburg, and the book s publisher is the new Forty Sixth Star Press, a company whose mission includes telling Oklahoma s story to children. The book also features Fern Holland from Bluejacket, Oklahoma, who died while fighting for human rights in Iraq; Father Stanley Rother, from Okarche, Oklahoma, who was martyred in Guatemala after he refused to abandon his people during a bloody civil war; and Colonel Robbie Risner, who grew up in Tulsa. In 1965, his F-105 Thunderchief was shot down over North Vietnam, and thus began seven long years as a POW. During the years of torture and captivity, he inspired his fellow American prisoners in the Hanoi Hilton with his faith and optimism. He prayed by the hour not to be rescued but to be able to endure the suffering. He was released in 1973. Other heroes include: Rosemary Hogan, Chattanooga, Oklahoma; Paul Henry Carr, Checotah, Oklahoma; Ruth Brown, Bartlesville, Oklahoma; Rufino Rodrigues, Lehigh, Oklahoma; Carrie Dickerson, Inola, Oklahoma and Ruben Rivers, Hotulka, Oklahoma. It is the compilation of extraordinary, modern-day heroes that reach wider and deeper than the pop tweens and queens of the day. This book promises to be a brilliant read for the kid on the farm in Bluejacket to the teenager working mornings at McDonald s before school and all the kids in between. 
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