Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts

by Stacy A. Cordery

Book Overview

In celebration of the Girl Scouts' centennial, a lively salute to its maverick founder. Born at the start of the Civil War, Juliette Gordon Low grew up in Georgia, where she struggled to reconcile being a good Southern belle with her desire to run barefoot through the fields. Deafened by an accident, "Daisy" married a dashing British aristocrat and moved to England. But she was ultimately betrayed by her husband and dissatisfied by the aimlessness...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670023302
• ISBN13: 9780670023301
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher