Grace Banker and Her Hello Girls Answer the Call: The Heroic Story of Wwi Telephone Operators

by Claudia Friddell

Book Overview

NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book

Led by twenty-five-year-old Grace Banker, thirty-two telephone operators -- affectionately called Hello Girls back in the US -- became the first female combatants in World War I.

Follow Grace Banker's journey from her busy life as a telephone switchboard trainer in New York to her pioneering role as the Chief Operator of the 1st Unit of World War I telephone operators in the battlefields...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684373506
• ISBN13: 9781684373505
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Calkins Creek Books
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.2" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5