Title: Fighting Jane
Subtitle: Mayor Jane Byrne and the Chicago machine
First published: 1980
Description: In nineteenth-century Concord, Massachusetts, seven-year-old Louisa May Alcott joins other local children on the excursions led by teacher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau, and is inspired to write her first poem. The coauthor is Marybeth Lorbiecki.
Subjects: Politics and government, Mayors, Biography, Authorship, Juvenile fiction, Childhood and youth, American Authors, Fiction, Children's fiction, Music, fiction
Places: Chicago (Ill.), Illinois, Chicago
People: Jane Byrne (1933-)
Time periods: 1951-
LC classification: F548.52.B95 G7