"I had two tools to fight injustice--words and images, my typewriter and my camera. I just felt that I had to fight evil, and I've felt like that since I was twenty years old. And I've never been an observer. I have to live a story to write it."-Ruth Gruber

This is the story of Ruth Gruber, a journalist from a Jewish American family and activist that covered places and situations that most reporters wouldn't. She went to school in Germany, attempting to get her PhD in one year, right at the time that Hitler was building power and tensions against the Jews was rising. In spite of seeing first-hand how things were, she returned to report on the conditions of women under different governments. She spent time in Germany, Poland, and the Soviet Union. She returned to the US to give speeches about the injustices she had seen, then continued to travel and tell the stories of those who otherwise wouldn't be heard, such as stories from the Soviet gulag. She went to Alaska for a year and a half, spent time in Italy after being made a general so the enemy couldn't kill her if she was captured and much more.

The book is a little over 100 pages with lots of color and illustrations, making this book a good option for kids to stretch into longer history books without it being as intimidating. It also has some informational boxes explaining things like Yiddish and other important things to give readers context they might not have. he book is written in a storytelling format, which makes it feel like reading a fiction story more than a biography. This is an excellent book to learn a little about the incredible career of an amazing woman.