A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2017
An ALA/ALSC Notable Children's Book
To become the first female Jewish Supreme Court Justice, the unsinkable
Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to overcome countless injustices. Growing up in
Brooklyn in the 1930s and '40s, Ginsburg was discouraged from working by
her father, who thought a woman's place was in the home. Regardless, she
went to Cornell University, where men outnumbered women four to one.
There, she met her husband, Martin Ginsburg, and found her calling as a
lawyer. Despite discrimination against Jews, females, and working
mothers, Ginsburg went on to become Columbia Law School's first tenured
female professor, a judge for the US Court of Appeals, and finally, a
Supreme Court Justice.
Structured as a court case in which the reader is presented with
evidence of the injustice that Ginsburg faced, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is
the true story of how one of America's most "notorious" women bravely
persevered to become the remarkable symbol of justice she is today.