Bøger af Alexis O'Neill

A young Mexican American girl accompanies her father to a swap meet, where she hopes to sell her music box for money for dancing lessons.

When Melvil Dewey realised every library organised their books differently, he wondered if he could invent a system all libraries could use to organise them efficiently. As an advocate for free public libraries, Dewey was EFFICIENT, INVENTIVE and often ANNOYING as he made big changes in the world of public libraries.

This revealing biography of a pioneering photojournalist and social reformer Jacob Riis shows how he brought to light one of the worst social justice issues plaguing New York City in the late 1800s using newly invented flash photography.