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2002
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2002 Hackmatack

Children's Choice Book Award/Prix littéraire - le choix de jeunes

This compelling biography presents the life story of Florence Nightingale - known for all time as the "Lady with the Lamp". Often portrayed as an "angel of mercy", she was much more than this - a strong and determined woman who believed that her calling in life was to do all she could to ease the pain and suffering of others. She worked tirelessly in the face of often impossible odds and her successes had a lasting effect on standards of hospital care.

Filled with historical photographs and drawings, this book tells of Florence's life, beginning with her childhood in a fashionable upper class family. As a young woman, she became deeply concerned with the suffering of the poor and sick and against many obstacles became perhaps the most famous nurse of all time. She is perhaps best known for her work in the Crimean war, where she struggle to correct appalling conditions, but her influence spread far beyond the battlefields.

Readers 10 and up will find this detailed telling of Florence's story unforgettable.