Annie Oakley
By (Author) Lucy Lethbridge
Octopus Publishing Group
Short Books Ltd
1st July 2005
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
978.02092
Paperback
160
Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 10mm
101g
Annie was seven years old when her mother sent her away to work. They were just to poor to keep her at home. But this little girl had a very special talent. She could shoot better than anyone. By fourteen she was keeping her family alive. But who could have guessed that Annie would become internationally famous.
Lucy Lethbridge is a freelance journalist and literary editor of The Tablet. She lives in Camden, London. She has written two other biographies in the WHO WAS series, Annie Oakley, Sharpshooter of the Wild West, and Ada Lovelace, Computer Wizard of Victorian England, which won the Blue Peter Book Award in 2002.