Georgina and the Dragon Author:Lee Kingman Georgina couldn't think of anything that could be much worse than being ten years old and having a name like Georgina Gooch. Especially when her four older sisters all had good names like Christine, Cheryl, Cynthia, and Charlene. No matter how she tried to convince her family to call her Gina, they always ended up, much to her disgust, calling h... more »er Georgie.
It helped when Georgina learned she had been named for her great-grandmother, woman suffragist extraordinaire who brought the vote for women to Idaho with the slogan "Women Are Here For Ever." Georgina began to think that maybe her name was something special, and if her father couldn't afford the plane ticket to send her as the family respresentative to the ceremonies in Boise, Idaho, commemorating the original Georgina Poindexter Farraday, then why couldn't she earn the money?
A thorough canvassing of the neighborhood for jobs convinced Georgina it was a man's world and that equal job opportunities, even for a ten year old girl, didn't exist. With some ingenuity, spunk, and old fashioned determination, however, it wasn't long before Georgina took over where three neighborhood males left off, tackled the fire breathing dragon of an old lady, Mrs Livermore, and, with this same independent soul, succeeded in upsetting the stereotyped roles in her own family and neighborhood.« less