Clara Lemlich arrived in Americawithout knowing English, that young women had to go to work, that they traded an education for long hours of labor and that she was expected to grow up faster than normal. However, Clara never quit despite the circumstances. Markel shows how many arrests, serious physical attacks and terrible misogny failed to deter this young womans journey on becoming an activist.
Michelle Markel is a former freelance journalist who has written multiple fictional and non fictoional books for children including Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Markers Strike of 1909 and Hillary Rodham Clinton: Some Girls Are Born to Lead. She lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband and two daughters. Michelle also has a program that often does school visits to give students a behind the scenes sneak peak of her work, publication process and full experience of how her books came to be.