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3.22.25 - Part 1 · Children's Hour

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Radioized Turn Story Hour. As a reminder,
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radio is a reading service intended for people who are
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blind of other disabilities that make it difficult to reprinted material.
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Today we will be reading from various books on Saint
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Patrick's Day. Your reader today is Diane. We will begin
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with a book It's Saint Patrick's Day and it was
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published by Scholastic Reader. It has a copyright year of
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two thousand and three to two thousand and four and
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the author of the book is Rebecca Gomez. It's Saint
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Patrick's Day. The holiday is here. It's March seventeenth, the
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same day every year. It's Saint Patrick's Day. We love
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to dress in green Irish eyes, will smile, will lebra
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cons be seen. It's Saint Patrick's Day. Hurry up, get dressed.
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There's lots to celebrate. You'll want to look your this.
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It's Saint Patrick's Day, so wear a lot of green shoes, hats,
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coaked shirts or anything in between. It's Saint Patrick's Day.
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Let's find a four leaf clover. We'll celebrate the Irish
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before the day is over. It's Saint Patrick's Day. Let's
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make some Irish stew at the tatoes, carrots, onions. Serve
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it hot for me and you. It's Saint Patrick's Day.
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We can dance in Irish reel. We will drink sweet
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green juice at each and every meal. It's Saint Patrick's Day.
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Tone the harp and tune the fiddle. We'll eat our
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favorite cookies with green icing in the middle. It's Saint
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Patrick's Day. No matter where you were born, today you
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can be Irish in which everyone topped the old the morn.
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It's Saint Patrick's Day. Let's sing an Irish song. Will
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wear our green carnations and celebrate all day long. It's
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Saint Patrick's stay. Do you hear the pipes and drums?
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Let's join the celebration. Do you want to come? It's
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Saint Patrick's Day. Irish music will be played. Be sure
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to get to Main Street to watch the big parade.
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Happy Saint Patrick's Day. Our next story is called Pete
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the Great leprecaun Chase, and it was published by Harper,
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an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers. It has a copyright
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year of twenty nineteen and the author is James Dean.
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Tomorrow's is Saint Patrick's Day and Pete's teacher, mister G,
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is teaching about leprechauns. The only time you can catch
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one is on Saint Patrick's Day. A leprecaun will bring
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you good luck, mister G says, and everyone in class
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wants a leprechaun. Pete gets a great idea. He will
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open a leprechaun catching business. Saint Patrick's Day comes and
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Pete gathers some supplies. He hangs a sign above a stand.
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This will be easy, Pete thinks. Squirrel is Pete's first customer.
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I want a leprecaun, Squirrel says, I need good luck
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for my tests. Cool, I'm on it, says Pete. Pete
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has a plan. He will follow a rainbow until he
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finds a leprechaun. Finally, Pete arrives at the end of
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the rainbow and finds Clover, the leprechaun, next to a
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pot of goads. Pete sneaks up behind Clover, but Clover
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is too fast. Did you think you could catch me
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so easily? He asked. Once there was a cat named
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Pete who thought nabbing some luck would be neat. Then
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he happens upon a smart leprechaun who he'll find quite
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tricky to beat. Clover disappears in a puff of green smoke.
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Pete will need a new plan. That afternoon, Gus visits
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Pete's Lucky Leprechaun Catchers. I want a leprecaun. Gus says,
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I need good luck for my Bandurye. Pete says, I'll
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see what I can do. Pete plans to lure Clover
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out with his music. He plays a jaunty song on
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his guitar. Before long, Clover dances over to Pete. Just
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a little co o, sir, Pete thinks. Suddenly, Clover starts
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spinning around Pete, round and round. Clover goes faster and faster.
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Oh no, Clover wraps up Pete with the rope. Pete
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has finally met his match, a crafty leprecaun. He just
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can't catch. He'll never win. He'd better give in or
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find something else to snatch. That evening, Calli visits Pete's
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Lucky lever Cohn Catchers. I want a lepracaun. Calli says,
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I need good luck for my tennis match. Hmm, says
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Pete said. Pet'sers stay is almost over. There isn't much
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time left to catch a lepracaun, but Pete won't give
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up yet. Pete sets a tr for Clover. Before long,
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Clover tiptoes up to the trap and sniffs the air. Hmm,
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I love candy, he whispers, peering under the box. Pete
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waits very quietly. Crash. Pete rushes over and checks underneath
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the trap, but it is empty. Clover skips away. Pete
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has tried ninny a plot, but still I haven't been caught,
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and it isn't and isn't it dandy? I even got candy?
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While Pete ends up with squat, Pete has an idea.
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He follows the trail of spilled candy to Clover's secret hideout.
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Pete sneaks up behind Clover. Swoosh. Pete finally catches Clover.
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Why do you want me? Clover asks, I'm helping my friends.
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Who needs some extra luck? Pete says luck doesn't come
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from having a leprechaun. Says Clover, you and your friends
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have each other. That already makes you as lucky as
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can be. Could Clover be right? Pete is one very
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lucky cat. A lucky cat doesn't need a lucky leprechaun.
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He lets Clover go. Pete decides he will be the
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good luckiest friends need by helping them out himself. Pete
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helps Squirrel study first test. Squirrel aces it. Pete helps
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Gus rehearse for the recital. Gus rocks it. Pete helps
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Cali practice for a match. CALLI wins it. Clover magically appears.
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Good job. Pete says Clover, I have one more poem
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for you. While Clover played Hide and Seek, Pete learns
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something unique. The luck that you make beats luck that
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you take. Any old day of the week, Happy Saint
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Patrick's Day. Our next set of books will be about
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famous women, and our first one is called Taylor Swift.
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It was published by a Golden Book. He has a
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copyright ear of twenty twenty three. Was written by Wendy Logia.
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Taylor Allison Swift was born on December thirteenth, nineteen eighty nine,
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in West Reading, Pennsylvania. Her parents named her after James Taylor,
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a famous musician. A lot of love surrounded Taylor and
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her little brother, Austin. The Swifts did many activities as
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a family. They spent time reading books, busney new places,
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and having fun outside. Christmas is one of Taylor's favorite holidays,
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and what made the holiday season even more exciting was
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their family lived on a Christmas tree farm. Everyone pitched
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in at Christmas time. Taylor's dad mowed the fields on
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his tractor. Taylor's job picking praying mantis a pods off
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the trees. The Swifts didn't want anyone to get a
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buggy's surprise on Christmas morning. As a kid, Taylor tried
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loss of different things. She rode horses, she acted and plays,
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she wrote poetry, but when she learned how to play
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the guitar, she knew she had found her passion. When
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Taylor has a go, nothing stops her. She was a
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big fan of country superstars Faith Hill and Shania Twain,
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and she discovered that both musicians had started their careers
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in Nashville, Tennessee. That was all ten year old Taylor
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needed to know. She asked her parents to take her
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to Nashville. She asked them every day, and finally, when
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she was eleven, it happened. Her mom took Taylor and
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Austin there for spring break. They drove up and down
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Music Row, in area with country music recording studios and businesses.
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While Taylor's mom and brother waiting in the car. Taylor
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ran into the offices of various record labels and handed
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out c d's she made of her music. Taylor performed
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anywhere that would have her, including fairs, festivals, and ballgames.
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But sometimes following dreams means doing things other people don't understand.
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Girls at school were mean to Taylor. Her classmates thought
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it was weird to like country music so much. This
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made Taylor said, but it didn't stop her from doing
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what she loved. When Taylor was thirteen, something incredible happened.
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RCAA Records wanted to work with her. Taylor and her
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family said goodbye to Pennsylvania and moved to Nashville. Her
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dream of being a country music star was about to
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come true. For Taylor, writing songs was just as important
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as singing them. But because she was young, the record
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company wanted her to sing other people's songs, and they
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thought she should wait until she was older before she
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made her own album. Taylor did not agree. One night,
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Taylor performed in Nashville's Bluebird Cafe. She sang some of
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her own songs and songs from other singers. She caught
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the eye of a music executive in the crowd who
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was forming a new record labor label. Guess who he
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signed up to make an album? Taylor Swift. Taylor's debut album,
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Taylor Swift, came out when she was just sixteen. She
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was excited every time she heard her songs on the rail.
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Her next album, Fearless, was the top selling record of
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the year and mate Taylor a huge star. Taylor is Fearless.
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When she went on her first concert tour, she took
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the music world by storm. One of Taylor's biggest strengths
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is storytelling. Her songs tell stories that many people can
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relate to. Taylor wrote all the songs on her third album,
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Speak Now. Listening to a Taylor Swift album is like
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hearing her diary being sun out loud. Many of Taylor's
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songs are inspired by her life, like the Best Day,
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a song about growing up in a loving family and
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having a supportive mom, telling her mom Andrea are very close.
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They talk about everything has known Taylor longer or knows
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her better than her mom. Trying new things and taking
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risk is important to Taylor. Even though country music was
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her first love, she took a big chance and recorded
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a pop album called nineteen eighty nine, and it was
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the best selling album of the year. Taylor never less
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anything hold her back from creating music she loves. Taylor
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also loves sharing things with her fans. They know that
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her lucky number is thirteen. She often hides clusing symbols
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in her music and videos. For a few of her albums,
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she surprised special groups of fans by inviting them to
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secret parties to listen to the album before anyone else.
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They got to hang out at her house, meet her family,
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and even bake cookies together. When Taylor likes something, she
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tells everyone about it. One thing she really likes cats.
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Taylor has a big reputation for speaking out against racial
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injustice and for encouraging people to vote. She stands up
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for other artists and herself even when it's tough. She's
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not just a superstar, She's a trailblazer. Taylor's hard work
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has paid off. Her albums have sold millions of copies.
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She has won multiple Grammys. She's traveled around the world
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and made people happy with their music. What will she
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do next? When your Taylor Swift disguise the limits. Our
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next book is called Barber Streisand and it was published
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by Golden Book. It has copyright year of twenty twenty
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four and it was written by Judy Katski. Barbara Jones
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Streisand was born on April twenty fourth, nineteen forty two,
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in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jewish family. Her father
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was an English teacher. Her mother worked as a secretary
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and loved to sing. Her big brother, Sheldon, was seven
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years old when she was born. No one knew that
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little Barbara would one day change the spelling of her
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name to bar Bruh and changed the world as one
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of the most talented performers of all time. But Barbara's
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life got off to a rough start. Soon after her
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first birthday, her father died. To make ends meet, Barbara's
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mother worked long hours, and she and the children moved
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in with her parents. Not having a father made Barbara
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feel different from the other kids. To school, she was
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shy and sometimes teased by her classmates. But Barbara wasn't
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shy when it came to singing. She loved to sit
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on the stoop of her grandparents building and belt out
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all kinds of songs. Singing made her happy, and hearing
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Barbara sing made others happy too. The night she performed
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at a school pta, meaning all the parents and teachers cheered.
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When Barbara was eight years old, her mother remarriedrried, and
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soon had a baby girl named Roslyn. Barbara felt alone
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and ignored by her mother and stepfather. She spent hours
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watching movies, wondering what it would be like to be
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the characters on the screen. At fourteen, Barbara saw her
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first Broadway show, The Diary of Van Frank, which was
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about a Jewish girl in hiding with her family during
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World War II. After seeing the play, Barbara knew she
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wanted to be an actress. When her school day ended,
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Barbara rode the subway from Brooklyn to Manhattan to take
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acting classes. She spent her summer vacations acting and seeing
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in theater groups in upstate New York. After high school graduation,
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her mother urged her to get a steady job as
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a secretary, but Barbara had other plans. She was going
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to be a famous performer. Barbara and a friend moved
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into a small apartment in Manhattan. She was determined to
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make it on her own without help from her family.
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Barbara went on auditions and earned money working as an
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offic fisclerk, a theater usher and a switchboard operator. She
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entered a talent show at a nightclub called The Lion,
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hoping to win the fifty dollars prize. To ease her nerves,
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Barbara used her acting skills and pretended to be a
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character while she sang. The audience loved her. Barbara won
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the contest. The Lion hired her to perform there two
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nights a week. Soon Barbara was singing at other clubs
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in the city. In nineteen sixty one, nineteen year old
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Barbara auditioned for the Broadway musical I Can Get It
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for You hosts Soil. The director was so impressed he
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gave her the role of Missus Marmelstein, even though it
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was originally written for a fifty year old. Barbara's part
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was small, but her singing and cometic timing stole the show.
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She received a Tony Award nomination in nineteen sixty two
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for Best Performance by a Featured Actress and a Musical.
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That same year, Barbara signed her first record deal. Year
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nineteen sixty three was a big one for Barbara. She
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performed for President John F. Kennedy at the White House
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Correspondence Association dinner millions of years tuned in to the
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Judy Garland Show. To her, Barbara and Judy sing happy
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days are here again, and get happy And in September
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of that year, the twenty one year old rising star
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married her first husband, actor Elliott Gould. The newly whizz
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had a lot in common. They were both from Jewish
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families and born in Brooklyn, and they had both starred
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in the same Broadway show. A few years later, they
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became parents to baby boy that they named Jason. Barbara
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returned to bar Broadway in nineteen sixty four playing the
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role of a comedian Fanny Brice and the musical Funny Girl.
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Audience loved the show in the psalms Don't Rain on
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My Parade and people. A few years later, Funny Girl
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became a Hollywood movie. Even though she had never been
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in a movie, Barbara was chosen to be the star.
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Once again, Barbara was a hit. The film won eight
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Academy Awards, including Best Actress for Barbara. Proudly holding her oscar,
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she gazed down at the ghost statue and said the
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words she made famous in the film, Hello Gorgeous. Barbara
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went on to start more movies, the romantic dramas like
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The Way We Were, comedies such as What's Up, Doc,
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and lavish musicals like Hello Dolly. For the royal performance
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of Funny Lady, the sequel to Funny Girl, Barbara was
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greeted by England's Queen Elizabeth the Second. By the nineteen eighties,
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Barbara was up at the top of her game, but
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she wanted to do more than act and sing. Barbara
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wanted to direct. Barbara's directorial debut was a movie musical
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called Yentl, based on a short story about a Jewish
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girl in the early nineteen hundreds who pretends to be
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a boy so she could study religion in school. The
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story was very important to Barbara, and she worked hard
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to get the movie made just as she wanted. Yanta
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was a nineteen eighty three box office success, and Barbara
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was the first woman in history to write, produce, direct,
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and start in a Hollywood film. Barbara is the only
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singer to have a number one album six decades in
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a row, but for twenty seven years fans couldn't see
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her perform live. Barbba bravely admitted that she suffered from
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stage fright ever since she forgot the lines to song
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at her concert in New York Central Park. Thankfully, she
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worked on her fears and went on to tour in
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nineteen ninety three, starting with the sold out New Year's
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Eve show in Las Vegas. When Barbara isn't performing, writing,
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or producing, she's very active in causes she believes in.
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Her Strike Sound Strikes and Foundation supports dozens of charities
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for animals, equal rights, education, and the environment. In twenty twelve,
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she founded the Barber streistand Woman's Heart Center at Cedar
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Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles to thank her for all
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the good she has done. In twenty fifteen, President Barack
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Obama awarded Barbara with the highest civilian honor in the
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United States, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Barbara lives in Malibu, California,
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with her second husband, actor James Browan. The home they
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share is both beautiful and fun. There are many buildings
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on their property, including one with a mini shopping mall
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in the basement. There's an old fashioned sweet shop that
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serves popcorn and FROs and yogurt, a dress shop displaying
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her costumes, and a shop for antique doll collection. Barbara
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never had a doll as a child. Now she has
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many in her gardener's a wishing well Women with flowers.
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Barbara streisand was once a little girl in Brooklyn who
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wished to a famous performer. Fans all around the world
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are very glad her wish came true. Our next book
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is called Vanessa Nakate and it was published by Franksis
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Lincoln Children's Books. It has a copyright year of twenty
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twenty three and was written by Maria Isabelle Sanchez. The
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Gara in the African city of Campella, the capital of Uganda.
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It's a little girl called Vanessa. She was the eldest
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of five siblings. Her parents always encouraged her to do
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what she thought was right and to raise her voice
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for a good cause. When she grew up, Vanessa went
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to school in the countryside. The only time that her
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teacher talked to the class about climate change. It seemed
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like it was a problem on the other side of
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the world. But at college, Vanessa started noticing how bloods
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and drafts destroyed crops, leaving families with nothing to eat.
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Africans were the least responsible for climate change, yet they
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were suffering the most. Luckily all over the world, millions
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of children were striking against climate change, so Vanessa convinced
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her siblings and cousins to join them too, and even
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though no one paid much attention to them on the
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first day they protested, she did not give up. Two
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weeks later, she became the first child in her family
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to graduate from college, making her parents very proud. Still,
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all her aunties could think about was finding a fiance
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for her and planning a wedding. Whether she was alone
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or companied by friends, Vanessa continued with her weekly strikes.
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She raised her voice against the destruction of the Congolan rainforest,
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home to many people and to families. One day, she
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received an invitation to visit New York City and join
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other young climate activists on a mission to convince world
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leaders to act against globe warming. Knowing her family had
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ever traveled that far before, Vanessa made friends, attended meetings,
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and even joined a massive climate march. Yet somehow she
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still felt alone. She was one of the few African
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activists there, and not much was said about how global
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warming was affecting her continent. Back home, there were a
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lot there was a lot of work to do. The
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NESSA organized clean ups, talked to students about global warming,
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wrote an open letter to Ugana's president, and started a
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project to bring eco friendly stoves and solar energy to schools.
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The Vanessa joined a handful of activists at a protest
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in Switzerland. She thought it would give her a chance
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to share her story, But after checking the news, Nisa
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realized that her words had been left out and her
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image had been renewed from a photograph. She felt like
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her whole content had been erased from the conversation about
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global warming. But instead of giving up and going back
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home quietly, Vanessa decided to speak up about being ignored.
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At this time, the world would listen. From that day on,
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her work sounded louder than ever. She signed articles, took
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part in lectures, and wrote a book about being a
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climate activist. Soon she was recognized as one of the
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most influential young Africans of the year. And today Little
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Vanessa is not just strong voice against climate change in
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her continent, she is also an inspiration to girls who
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dream of leading Africa and the whole of our planet
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to a brighter future. Our next story is cabbed Not
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Done Yet Shirley Chislem's Fight for Change, and it was
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published by mil Brooke Press and it has a copyright
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year of twenty twenty two. It was written by Tamika
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Friar Brown. Before she was born, Shirley would kick so
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hard her mother knew she was aching to come out
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and fight. Her mother was right. Shirley Chisholm was a
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natural born fighter. She didn't like to be bossed, and
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she wanted things to be fair. Little Shirley and her
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sisters went to live on grandmother's farm and Barbados. Life
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was rich with sweet bread, fruit, fruit, cassava, and yan
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sunny people in the bluest Caribbean Sea. After six years,
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mother took them back to cold, crowded, confusing Brooklyn. It
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was a struggle, but Shirley finally learned to love it too.
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What Shirley didn't love was the unfair way certain people
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who were treating America black and brown people, women and
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poor people, people like her family. Like Shirley. All the
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prejudice made her angry. She wanted to do something about it.
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She didn't know what, though not yet. Shirley and her
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sisters excelled in school because mother and Papa expected it.
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Study make something of yourself, Papa said, Shirley took his
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message message to heart. If school and learning could make
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her life better, they could also be Shirley's destiny a
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help lift others by becoming a teacher, and she did,
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But destiny had more in mind. Shirley got involved in
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a Brooklyn political club. The women in the club worked
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hard to earn money that only the men got to use.
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This isn't fair, Shirley said to the club. We raised it,
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we should get to use it too. Surely is right.
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The women backed her up. The men had no choice
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but to share. She showed speaking out could make a
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real difference. She was proud, but she wasn't done yet.
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For years, Shirley worked night and day for leaders she
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thought would help Brooklyn. After a while, she began to
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believe the best person to lead might be Shirley. Shirley
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entered the race to represent Brooklyn in the New York
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State Assembly. When neighbors told her women should not run
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for office, she made them all a promise, fighting, Shirley
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Chisholm will always fight for you. Enough to believed her,
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and she won. She was of Brooklyn's first black assembly woman,
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a great triumph, but she wasn't done yet. Assembly women
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Chisholm got straight to work, speaking up for the poor
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and the ignored. The men in the Assembly didn't like
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her style. Little Lady uhould be more quiet. Instead, she
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spoke louder and worked even harder. Eight deals she wrote
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became laws. She was keeping her promise, but she wanted
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to do more, so she ran for the United States Congress.
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We will continue this book next time. So this concludes
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our children's story. If for today, please join us next
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time as we will read more stories, fables and fairy tales.
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